For those of you who are not aware of it, there is a Vance Family Association, you can find out more information about it and how to join at this url: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/VFA/ You will also find queries from other researchers as well as a wonderfully researched and well documented account of the story of Abner Vance by Grace Dotson. Thank you, Sonya V. Woosley