When were they abandoned? Was it after the 1880 census? Was Mac born by June 1870 & possibly on that census? Have you looked on the tax records for that county? John > I am looking for the parents of Ella Anderson, my great-grandmother. She was > born July 7, 1872 in Sweden or Texas. She had an older brother named Mac > Anderson. They were deserted by their parents as small children in Ellis Co., > Texas near a town called Ferris, Texas. They didn't know who their parents > were. Ella was taken in by the Neely family to raise and Mac was raised by > the Weatherford family. Can anyone help me with this family of Anderson's. > The parents just disappeared. > Thanks, Jane Little McEndree, janemc@airmail.net.