We cantrace ours back to 1066. That's when a certain Beuth Sim, turned back a contingent of British soldiers from his "Yetholm", {apparently a small keep, located in a pass}, in the Chevoit hills in county Roxburgh, Scottish Borders. My branch arrived in America in the late 1600's with three brothers, Abraham, Parrish, and Thomas Sims. It is from Thomas sims that I am descended. There was a Thomas Sims who was Aide-de-camp and later, Pall-Bearer to, Gen. Washington. My own Father Thomas Malone Sims, SR. PFC U. S. Army served in the 3rd Army under Gen. Geo. S. Patton, and my Brother Rear Admiral Thomas Malone Sims, Jr. USN Ret. Out of all the notable ancestors the one I'm most proud of, my lifelong hero, my Father!