Please I need help in finding my families: OVERTON, the OVERTON-MILAM connection, the OVERTON-JOHNSON-MILAM connection, the LEAVELL-OVERTON, I believe most of this history begins In Colonial America between the early to mid 17th Century thru to the late 19th and early turn of the 20th Century VA, KY,NC,TN.....question prior to reconstruction....why did the slaves regardless of station in service to their Slave Master's and regardless to their (the Slave-masters)Social order in the Old South, with that being said why name practicably every male child repeatedly the names of Presidents during the colonial periods of early America....even before America was America.....and this is just what I have observed with my family regardless of surnames....sometimes this was done in one single family Branch or twig??! this is why I have so much confusion thrying to find who is who, when you have five who have the same name and born in the same family with similar dates of birth.....Oops!, I also need to know the European Surname connection (America/American first).