This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CRANK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ABC.2ACE/2005.2009.2009 Message Board Post: Hello Michael Dye: I found the Will of John CRANK you posted on the Russell Co. VA web site. I just started genealogy this summer, I've gotten info that my line goes like this: GMother; Mary Catherine CRANK; d/o William Sylvester CRANK/Lydia BRYANT, s/o John CRANK/Mary MASON; s/o James M. CRANK/Ellender TAYLOR. Then it gets conflicting: then I show James M. CRANK is the son of a Abraham or Samuel CRANK, b. 1755 PA or VA; m. Sara WASH. Abraham CRANK is the son of John H. CRANK, b. 1705. Do you have any enlightening info to straighten this out? When was the John CRANK born? TIA Happy New Year, Harry Van Noy in IN.