Don't fret Carolyn, it works that way sometimes. I have a 2 great grandgather, A.J.McKinney we can trace back to his parents and the trail ends there. The problem lies in the fact the courthouse in Alabama was burned by Union troops and what official records exhisted are now gone. He served in the 59th and 61st Alabama . He was wounded in the left leg and captured at Cedar Creek, Va. I have four great grandfathers that served in the Confederate Army.