Greetings, My name is Brenda Collins Dillon. I am new to this list but not new to genealogy. I have been researching my family names for 25+ years. surnames include : *COLLINS*SPENCER*TAYLOR*BENNETT*WILLIAMS*ROARK* I am co-host of Appalachian Mountain Families, a website that started out with a 2 MB homepage and has grew to 33 MB with a little of everything. My parnter in this adventure is Frankie Blackburn, better known as Gypsy. We are both Collins researchers and our latest venture was to write an article on our Collins lines which was just published in the Appalachian Quarterly, December issue. It is our first time at writting but the response so far has been great. I come to this list to see if I can find anything connections to my Meredith Collins line. Meredith b. 1760 Va. lived 1799-1800 in Russell County, Va. but I am not sure where as the lines changed many times. I have never been able to find deed records showing he owned property but since he moved to Shelby Creek, in Floyd Co. ( later to become Pike Co) by 1810, leaving his eldest son, Bradley, behind on the family property one assumes there was land but I have not found it as yet. Also I have several children fathered by Meredith and would like to find records to verify this. Any assistance in my search would be appreciated. If I can help others along the way don't hesitate to ask. Reguards, Brenda Collins Dillon http://members.xoom.com/Appalachian/ ( update should be competed in next week; some files are huge, please be patient when opening them)