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/VYG.2ACIB/1567.1 Message Board Post: Is is possible your grandparents and great grandparents can be located in the US federal census between 1850 and 1930. If you provide some details as to approximate dates they lived and places of residence as best you know ithem someone on the Buck-L mailing list may be able to help you out. Someone may even have earlier generations, but we need as many DETAILS as you can provide. George, Tom and William are common names and don't give much to go on.