Hello Fellow WEST cuzzins', Well, gang, pass me the big bottle of Excedrin. For many moons I have had a bee buzzin' around in the back of my head, just irritating the fool out of me sometimes, concerning a possible early connection between my mother's family and my father's family. Some of their respective family lines were in Ms. at about the same time, however, on different sides of Ms.,mother's being the BROOMEs and THORNTONs in Utica, Hinds Co.(my mother's maternal line); and dad's WESTs and relatives in the Jasper, Clarke and Wayne Co. areas of Ms. After a genealogy meeting this morning, I headed to Clayton in Houston. There in a large format book "The First Hundred Years of Trinity Co." - (Texas) the bee did buzz. One of the Family History write-ups highlighted a well-known family 'MILLIKEN' with some biographical information. George MILLIKEN (son of Charles, from Va. > NC), married an Agnes WEST, Guilford Court, Guilford NC. Children were born and then this family removed to the Logan, Ky. area. One of their sons - Hugh Milliken m. Mary (Polly) Copeland, in Ky. Then this family removed to East Texas. The sixth child of Hugh and Mary, Agnes MILLIKEN m. John J. Tucker (in Trinity,Texas) who was my g g grandfather on my mother's paternal side. YIPES! Katie WEST m. Robert LEE - Wayne Co., Ms - my g g g grandparents on my father's maternal side. I wonder if my Dr. John WEST (Katie's father) was related to Agnes WEST. ! ! ! ! ! Sharon CHILDERS Alderman