Mildred, Your information is WONDERFUL! JUST GREAT! You have always been so helpful and I want you to know how much I appreciate this too! As you know, I have been working for years trying to figure out IF and how our various Wilburn and Welborn families connect. I am just starting to get some breakthroughs. It's been a real slow learning process, but one that I enjoy thanks in large measure to good hearted people like you. I have a lot more work to do to put these pieces of this big puzzle all together. Not that I will ever be able to find everything that I would like to find, but thanks to people like you on the internet who freely share, I am really making some progress. Right now I am working on the Lunenburg VA Wilburns and the Mechlenburg, VA Wilburns and they are related and are also related to the other Wilburn famiiles in VA too. And are also related to those in NC too... As you know just about all of the Wilburns living in America today have colonial VA ancestors...I would estimate about 95% of Wilburns today have early colonial roots... I have little knowledge of these later Wilburn families who settled into GA, SC, TX, AR, AL and other places...but by us all working together and helping each other we can begin to learn who are earlier ancestors in VA were. And its always exciting to find new ancestors, right? So I will definitely add new info as I uncover it and post on the website. Again, many thanks. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you. Warmest regards, Vikky Just how they are related is the big puzzle, but slow ----- Original Message ----- From: M6907SPENCER@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:52 PM To: WILBURN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILBURN-L] Wilburns and allied families Captain Wm. Twitty married Susannah Beller in KY. Wm. Twitty, Jr. born in NC m. Frances Rhodes Lewis from VA Robert Graves Twitty m. Mary Logan Wm. Lewis Twitty born NC m. Sarah D. Miller Susannah's parents were from PA and her lineage was from Germany. There were several Wilburn/Beller marriages: My great grandfather, James Johnson Wilburn, m. Mary E. Beller I don't have her parent's names. Martha Lovina Wilburn m. Wm. E. Beller s/o Eli Beller from VA and Mary Polly Campbell from NC. Nellie Rector m. Robert Taylor Moore, s/o Wm. Patton Moore and Sarah Bennett Murdock. This is on the Snodgrass/Whitaker and Murdock/Lee side of the family. My grandmother Martha Ann Snodgrass born VA m. Wm. Warren Wilburn II born. AR I don't have parent's for Nellie Rector or any other information. Pleas H. Harris born TN m. Martha Ann Wilburn d/o Wm. Smith Wilburn and Emily Adeline Jones in AR Robert L. Harris born 1879 m. Riller Wilburn Boone Co. AR I don't have parents for either one of these Harris men. These are the only surnames from the list you posted that are in my database. Hope you get some better connections from other researchers. Mildred Wilburn Spencer ==== WILBURN Mailing List ==== To search the Wilburn-L archives, go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl