This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/598.1 Message Board Post: Could use some more info... Exactly where in the census have you found Jeff Brock? Did the census list his parents' birth states? Were they consistent across more than one census? Be warned that Ancestry's index for 1870 Independence County, Arkansas is relatively poor compared to some of their other indices. Names are frequently missing or misspelled in transcription, making it difficult to find people in that year. There may well not exist any birth record as such for your Jeff Brock but, with knowledge of the parents' origins, you have a good chance of locating the family in 1880 and/or 1870.