Welcome Peggie. Please tell me about your BOLT and McAlexander connections. Sorry I cannot help with the Light family. Mary Anne At 06:15 PM 9/18/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, > My name is Peggy Light and I just discovered the Patrick County list >this week. I was raised in the Meadows of Dan area but now live in >Pennsylvania, so most of my research is done long-distance. > I am researching the names Light, Burnett, Conner, Bowman, Hall, Smith, >McAlexander, Scott, Bolt, McGrady, Quesinberry, Marshall, and Martin, >among others, all of them from Patrick and Carroll Counties. > Presently, my big mystery is the history of my g-g-g grandparents, >Samuel and Sarah Light. Some sources say Samuel was born in 1797 in >Pennsylvania and died in 1831. I have found no verification of this, in >fact, I have found no record of them at all except on the death record >of their son, James Light. Is there anyone else on this list >researching the Light family? > I am looking forward to participating in this list. > Peggy >