Hi, all! Have recently joined this list but have been mostly lurking and reading. We just moved from S. Florida in August and are trying to get settled in our new home in Ona, WV. (For those of you who don't know where Ona is - it is just east of the Huntington/Barboursville area off of Rt. 60.) My mother and I have been researching our family lines since the late 1960s. Mother passed away in 1984 and I lost all interest for several years. Nine years ago I met a wonderful guy who was into computers and got me back into genealogy on the Web. Wow!! Mother would have loved it. She spent many, many hours writing and corresponding by s-mail and we spent 2-3 wks every summer doing research in WV/Ky/Oh/Va courthouses, libraries, etc. (You all know the routine!!) At any rate, all of this to introduce myself and to say that I will be able to do more researching since we've moved back to the Cabell/Wayne Co. area. Will eventually have more time as we get settled. The main lines that I'm researching from this area are: Mother - Thelma Ruth CHAFFIN b. Miller's Fork, Wayne Co., WV Father - Claude Wilson CLAY b. Martha, Cabell Co., WV grandparents - Jesse Hubert CHAFFIN b. Blaine, Lawrence Co., KY Ruby Marie BLANKENSHIP b. Miller's Fork, Wayne Co., WV George Wilson CLAY b. WV Cynthia Ann HARLESS/MCCOMAS (not sure which one??) b. WV gr-grandparents - Jesse Marion CHAFFIN b. Blaine, Lawrence Co., KY Clementine ADKINS b. Blaine, Lawrence Co., KY John Wesley BLANKENSHIP b. Miller's Fork, Wayne Co., WV Laura HUFF b. Trace Creek, Wayne Co. , WV James Loren CLAY b. not sure/possibly WV Mary Elizabeth CLARK b. " " Jefferson MCCOMAS ? Unknown gr-gr-grand- James Milton CHAFFIN b. Blaine, Lawrence Co. , KY parents Mary SANDERS b. Patrick Co., VA William Tolbert ADKINS b. Logan Co., VA Martha Ann ADKINS b. Logan Co., VA Francis Marion BLANKENSHIP b. Wayne Co., VA Margaret CROCKETT b. Wayne Co., VA Henderson HUFF b. VA Juda Ann FERGUSON b. Johnson Co., IN I am can go back many more generations on some of these lines and connect with alot of you who have been posting. I have more information on the following lines and will be happy to share what I have. (Hopefully, as I'm able I'll do more documentation through courthouse records. When Mother and I used to do research we noted where - such as County, but not volumes and page numbers.) Families: ADKINS/FRY - TONEY - GILLESPIE HUFF - FERGUSON - TROUT - OSBORN - NOE - PATRICK - BALL - TUNNEL - BRASHEAR - WILSON CHAFFIN - SANDERS - CAIN CLAY BLANKENSHIP - CROCKETT Would love to hear from anyone who is researching the same families and compare notes. My brick walls are: Edmund Osborn Tolbert Huff Sarah Mounts Wilson Joel Martin Ferguson Abraham Trout ____ Lynda Davis-Logan <[email protected]> "ever so happy in beautiful Ona, WV" researching: Adkins, Ball, Blankenship, Brashear, Cain, Chaffin, Clay, Davis, Ferguson, Gillespie, Harless, Huff, Law, McNeeley, Mounts, Osborn, Sanders, Stowers, Trout, Tunnel, Wilson