This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/969.1.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Eric: Thanks for your reply. If I take the approach that the family history is correct, if somewhat limited, then I have this to work from ==> Mary Ellen "Ella" Biggs was born in 1849 to Uriah and Jane Biggs. One Indiana family history says they were from Fountain Co., IN. In 1880 Census Mary Ellen's parents are shown as both being from Ohio. Mary Ellen herself was probably born in Sullivan or Fountain or Warren county, IN based on the presence of Biggs families there in the Census data. Then she was somehow orphaned during her first year of life, and ends up in the household of Tirah and Lucetta (Steele) Harris in Sullivan County. She seems to have appeared in that household in the 1850 and 1860 Census' of Sullivan County, IN, which provides some slight corroboration. I need data that validates this. One type of validation would be something that connects the Biggs family in Sullivan Co., or Warren Co., or Fountain Co, IN to the Harris family. (The linkages between the Tirah Harris family in Sullivan Co. and the family of Peter Frakes that she married in 1866 are clearly established, there are numerous ties by marriage.) I have yet to find a logical Biggs family in the 1850 Census data for Vigo or Sullivan county, Indiana. Another type of validation would be a connection between the Biggs family of Ohio and the Harris and Frakes families in Ohio. (It is clearly documented that the families of Benjamin Harris (Tirah's granddad), and Philip Frakes (Peter's granddad) were in Butler Co., OH between 1806-09, and both families eventually ended up in the Vigo-Sullivan counties area of Indiana by the 1820s.) I'll try to look around at Ohio data and see if I can come up with something that places a logical Biggs family there. Oh yeah, by the way, Peter and Ella Frakes were my paternal great grandparents. How does Uriah Biggs fit your lineage? Charles Frakes Scotts Valley, Ca