I received this from another list and found it very helpful - actually found some of what I believe to be my Akers families in IN. Check it out at <http://www.census-online.com/links/index.html> Carmen Carmen Boyd, MS, LPC, RD <cab011f@smsu.edu> Instructor, Biomedical Sciences Department Southwest Missouri State University ********************************** Beginning the third generation searching for the parents of the orphaned George Washington Persel born 1842 in Putnam Co, IN ************ Visit my page at <http://www.smsu.edu/contrib/bms/county/myfamily.htm> ************ Researching: Boyd, Marshall, Wynne, Short, Stith, Worsham, Little, Seaman, Denton, Harris, Elam, Spain, Robertson, Hastin, Graves, Persel, Pare, Vaughan, Barbour, Williamson and others...... Neas, Renner, Rader, Ottinger, Rausch, Zirkle, Andes, Bowers, Gable, Bear, Buck, Wheeler, Cotner, Detterman, Ensley/Endsley, Freshour, Harmon, Wagner, Peters, McBroom, and Schindeldecker and still others...... ***********