In a message dated 5/27/2005 10:22:27 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Anne: I have a gg aunt by the name of Angline Webb. Her father died the year she was born and her mother died when she was 7 years old. She went to live with her uncle and shows up in the 1850 TN Census in the OTHER Listing which means Other Sir Names Living in a Subject House Hold that does not have the same Sir Name. e.g. Angline Webb was living with her uncle Rev. John Landrum. After 1850 I have not yet found her in TN. Still looking. Later I found an Angline Landrum marriage. Could be her uncle adopted her.? Sam Webb Could be. Could also be Angline was a family name and Angline Webb was named for an aunt. Example from my own family, Cordelia Brandon Worsham married William Henry Webb and they had a child named Sarah A. Webb (in the Census). Sarah A. Webb died as an infant. As my research progressed I realized Sarah A. stood for Sarah Angeline. Then I found that Cordelia's sister Sarah A. was also Sarah Angeline. I also found that William Henry had a sister named Maranda Angeline. Moral of the story: check the marriage date against possible Landrum (birth name) girls to make sure there isn't a Martha A. Landrum of the same age -- while you pursue the theory that Angline is Angline Webb adopted by Landrum. Eventually the weight of evidence should point one way or another. Side note: if Angline Webb had a known sister (or her mother did) and you can track both that sister and Angline Landrum (Married name) to living descendants with all female lines in between, you can test mtDNA. A match isn't conclusive proof that Angline Webb = Angline Landrum but a mismatch sure means they aren't. Don't have to worry about non-maternity events (well unto the time in vitro fertilization and surrogate moms etc get into the research timeframe!). Anne