Please note Vikky's new email address! -----Original Message----- From: Vikky Anders [mailto:vikkya@msn.com] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:25 PM To: Wilburn-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} From: Vikky Wilburn Anders Hello to all of my Wilburn cousins. As some of you know I have been seeking out Wilburns or all varieties, shapes and sizes and from all locations in the United States. And yet, years later, I still know very little about those ancestors who married into my own direct Wilburn ancestral line. But I have finally (thanks to the internet and tons of help from other researchers) I have been able to make some progress. This remains a work in progress and in most cases, I have learned the families, but unfortunately not the exact people who did all the begetting. As many of you know the experts say that only 25% of marriage records in VA and NC exist today...Many counties in TN and KY and other states simply do not have marriage records until 1835 or later. So this always presents problems when our ancestors settled into these (later) burnt out locations. Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 in which he torched Jamestown, VA, and later the Civil War destruction of many southern court houses has resulted in documents that are simply lost to the ages. At any event, the following are some surnames that connect to my direct Wilburn line. Some are surnames of my direct ancestors and other names, I remain uncertain, but know that these families are related to my own ancestors, but perhaps related indirectly. Please let me know if ANY of these same surnames are connected in any way to your own families. Thanks so very much! Philpott Whitlock Guttery Hughes Rose Baldwin Stampers Scaggs Blevins Osborne Armstrong Arms Scott Stewart Fitzpatrick East Hammond Branham Gibson Hart Sizemore Carroll Lowe Whitt Thanks again for your time. Vikky