Cynthia,

Thanks for the info. So based on what you said, was there perhaps another Bartlett Goodman?

That's interesting that you mentioned Indiana. There's actually an 1807 census of the Indiana Territory (which also included all of southern Illinois) online, and there is a John Goodman listed on it, I believe in Dearborn County. Is that perhaps another ancestor?

I sent off my DNA sample this week, so I'm really interested to see what kind of results come up. Especially considering that my 3G-grandfather supposedly had Illinois roots (the census records of my 2G-grandfather listed Illinois as "father place of birth"). And if that's the case, then I strongly suspect that his ancestors came from KY or TN, or possibly even VA. Those areas seem to have had a good number of Goodmans at the time. So we may have a relation going back past that generation.

-Sean