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Anita,
Thanks for your response. You have named a host of Flemings to which I am no doubt related. The problem that I and many other people are having is since first names are so recurrent, it can be confusing as to which Robert, John, James, etc. that documents refer to. Furthermore, I have found that a lot of "research" floating around out in cyberspace is inaccurate and names incorrectly linked. Many of the names that you list are familiar to my reading. But I don't know to what extent they are related to my direct ancestors. I have been relying on censuses to verify information and to reconstruct probable family structures. Also I am one of 13 different Fleming lines that are involved in a "Y" chromosome Fleming study to determine how this family tree is constructed. Most of us appear to come from the same ancestor generations back to say 1700's or so.
As for specifics: My Fleming ancestral line appears to go back to John Fleming b. 1733. It appears that two of his sons, Robert b. 1759 and William moved to the Talbot area of GA from MD. Two other brothers ended up moving to SC from MD. The SC descendants ended up in west AL. Robert b. 1759 had 3 sons; John, Robert and Hiram, sons of Robert b. 1759, moved to east MS and married three daughters of George Gunn from NC. Most all of this is verified through census records.
What can be confusing is the drifting in and out of the picture by distantly related and unrelated Flemings that may have been in these areas also. It seems though that extended families tended to stay together in at least the same or nearby counties.
I appreciate your information, but I don't know how to connect it to my data. If anything I mentioned here triggers a thought, please let me know.
Regards
John Fleming
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