Sarah, I am searching for the father of James M. Burk of Indiana. This William sounds like a possible brother. Please keep my email address in case you are successful. We are also searching, my sister and I, and I will keep your email address for future reference. My guess is that the father of my James M. will be a William. Yours may be a William also. James M. named his first son William Sanford Burk. My line goes like this, 1. James M. 2. William Sanford, 3. (James my granddad's brother) Columbus Oliver my granddad, 4. Madie, my Mom. The birth date of James M. is unknown but his marriage to Matilda Harlan was July 25, 1845 in Putnam Co. Indiana. I hope this is clear enough. All of you Burk searchers out there, take a look please. Maryann Richardson ==== BURK Mailing List ==== BURK and BURKE list archives can be found at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BURK http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BURKE - ----------------------------------------- Find easy instructions for using RootsWeb's Search Engine for the Archives at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm =======================================================