The soundex extractions came from microfilm that I have at the Cherokee Co., Ks Genealogy library at Columbus Kansas. For those of you not familiar with census records data, an excellent articles on census and soundex can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm I checked my databases and other records and can find No other reference to the name of Illiff. than these. It is an not a common name, either given name for surname. -- Jerry F. Adamson; P.O. Box 380; Baxter Springs, Kansas, 66713: ICQ-29312561 My homepage - http://www.rectec.net/users/jadamson/ "Adamson Ancestry"- http://www.AdamsonAncestry.com/ "Felsburg Ancestry"- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jadamson/felsburg/index.html