Congratulations on your survival, Martha! You wrote: > researchers. Would each of you, with a genealogy related site, please > post the URL for your site? Valuable information can be found at each > of these sites. My Woottens descend from John and Mary, who arrived in Somerset County Maryland before 1671 'from Virginia'. An abbreviated story of their descendants, from John Jacob, is posted at my WWW site, URL below. > the list? Others are seeking information on the family prior to THOMAS > WATTON/WOOTEN, Isle of Wight, VA. Please post information on his > ancestors, the COUNCIL family, or other related ancestors. Other immigrants in this time period include Thomas Wootten who arrived at Jamestown and left no line of descendants, and my John and Mary Wootten. I feel that if we could work back to England we could find the thread which connects these folk. Clear skies, Al +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | |genealogy homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | +---------------------------------------------------------+