Jim Elbrecht <jelbrech@nycap.rr.com> wrote: << The fastest, cheapest & most reliable method would be to order Microfilm from the series M804. >> Thanks for the suggestion, Jim! I would much rather go that route than to trust my money and records to a civil servant! :-) I'm gonna check with my local library and see if they can get it in for me. I don't know which state might have the records on file because my Samuel Ellis moved from NC to Tennessee, on to Kentucky, then Missouri, and back to Kentucky where he died, so I have no idea where he was when he filed his application. I'd be better off trying to source it from the federal government records. Thanks again, Mack Smith