Pamela, if I had a surname as well as the given names of the folks you're trying to find proof for, I might be able to help. To try to list every person residing in and/or born in the Bruno area over a 15-20-year span (1870s thru mid-1880s) would entail typing several hundred pages. I have access here at home to the 1870, 1880, 1900 census as well as the reconstructed 1890 census, marriage records 1887-1917, cemetery records, "Genealogies of Marion Co Families 1811-1900" as well as the not-yet-published supplement to this book, "History of Marion Co" and more. If you'll let me know the names, I'll be happy to see what I can do. Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com "Genealogy without documentation is mythology" ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Ott <dott@centurytel.net> To: <ARMARION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 1:54 PM Subject: Fwd: Records: > Pamela, > Birth records were not required in Arkansas until about 1914. You > may find census records for 1880 that would list these folk in Arkansas and > might indicate they were born in AR. If the parents were in the 1870 > Arkansas Census, lived in the same place in 1880 and had a child, that may > not be documentary evidence, but pretty good circumstantial evidence. I > will forward this message to the Marion county list and hope some one else > will be able to help also. > It sure might make a difference if we had a name to work with as > well as known data about them. > Don > > > > >From: "pamaddy" <pamaddy@netzero.net> > >To: <dott@centuryinter.net> > >Cc: "Pamela Diane Bobila" <pamaddy@netzero.net> > >Subject: Records: > >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:59:58 -0700 > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 > > > >I have been trying to find some proof of my family being born in Bruno, > >Marion Co., Arkansas, between the years of 1870's to the middle 1880's. > >Could you advise me as to where I might find some of this information if > >it exists. > > > >PAMELA >