Retired, living in my wife's hometown of Palmer, Alaska . Thanks to Ancestry.com, Family research has become my new job. Primary lines of inquiry are Family of John Cox & Mary Leah Jobe of Sullivan Co., TN., Family of Francis Marion Hatfield and Mary Jane "Polly" Harter of Putnam Co, Ohio. Also William Pettyjohn (DE, VA, PA, IL, WA), Thomas Franklin Hole (Eng, Canada, Iowa), Walter Hogg(VA,IA), Richard Acuff (VA,MO,TN), Jeremiah Moore(KY,IA,OR), Hezekiah Mathis/Mathews (KY, IN, MO. Unfortunately I have hit walls on most of these lines in the mid 1700s. In the summer of 2010 we traveled 9000 miles in 11 weeks in an RV to search in NE, KS, MO, AR, TN, KY, & IA. It was everything I had hoped for. If anyone is thinking of such a trip I encourage you to go for it. We repeated this trip in 2015 going 10,000 in 92 days, again we found everything we were looking for and took my Wife's Miller line from 1805 all the way back to 1700 immigrants from Ireland. We plan to go out again in 2016.

Retired, living in my wife's hometown of Palmer, Alaska . Thanks to Ancestry.com, Family research has become my new job. Primary lines of inquiry are Family of John Cox & Mary Leah Jobe of Sullivan Co., TN., Family of Francis Marion Hatfield and Mary Jane "Polly" Harter of Putnam Co, Ohio. Also William Pettyjohn (DE, VA, PA, IL, WA), Thomas Franklin Hole (Eng, Canada, Iowa), Walter Hogg(VA,IA), Richard Acuff (VA,MO,TN), Jeremiah Moore(KY,IA,OR), Hezekiah Mathis/Mathews (KY, IN, MO. Unfortunately I have hit walls on most of these lines in the mid 1700s. In the summer of 2010 we traveled 9000 miles in 11 weeks in an RV to search in NE, KS, MO, AR, TN, KY, & IA. It was everything I had hoped for. If anyone is thinking of such a trip I encourage you to go for it. We repeated this trip in 2015 going 10,000 in 92 days, again we found everything we were looking for and took my Wife's Miller line from 1805 all the way back to 1700 immigrants from Ireland. We plan to go out again in 2016.