In a message dated 5/27/2005 9:15:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Start at your grandfather Jesse and back up the line from there looking for the collaterals, one generation at a time. Anne, By "collaterals" do you mean siblings, neighbors, other Webb lines, other possible relatives, or something else? (Sorry to have to ask what to me sounds like a basic question any newbie should know.) Merrell