In a message dated 04/26/2000 9:29:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: his wife is the daughter of Michael Swaim and Rachel Vanhoy let me look in my file to see what else I have Belle - >> Belle, Thank you for your reply saying you will look at your files. I have contacted two others researching the Swaim family and they could not help. I hope you are able to shed some light on this Thomas Vestal. If you look below, I have copied from the digest where Thomas and Grace's daughter Prudence Vashti Vestal, my great-great grandmother, married Lindsay David Vestal. I am not sure how they are related, first, second cousins or what. Generation No. 2 [GG-Grandparents] 2. PRUDENCE VASHTI2 VESTAL (THOMAS1) was born 1855 in Yadkin Co., North Carolina. She married LINDSAY DAVID VESTAL, son of DAVID VESTAL and SARAH MCMASTERS. He was born December 23, 1847 in Randolph Co., North Carolina, and died 1915. Thanks again Belle and to anyone else that might be able to help. Barbara