Are Jesse and Frank James descended from (Evan James?) and Anne (Foreman) James? They are my 6th great-grandparents. From Jesse James' family tree, I don't see a connection to these two people.

Maybe it is just family legend, but I have a quote from an ancestor that was written down and passed on through the years. One of my ancestors told of how he ran into the James side of our family. He "returned to Coshocton Co., OH as a young man and was on a buckboard with a cousin when he passed several James relatives whom he had never met. He said they were so disreputable that he didn't get down off the wagon to introduce himself to them."

This quote is accompanied by an explanation of the McDonald relation to the "infamous Frank and Jesse James".
"One of Frank and Jesse James' ancestors (first name unknown) was the husband of one Anne James who died in 1840. The James family came from Westmoreland Co., MD. " It goes on to say that Anne James is a distant grandmother to both my grandfather and the James brothers.

Does anyone know the accuracy of this? From my research, I think my James family was not the same family as that of Frank and Jesse.