Glad I could help Lynn ...I love hearing that something I did worked..lol. Now, if someone would figure out what brick good ol' Ellis Campbell (Cammel) b 1804 in VA is hiding under...I'd be pleased as can be! You think that finding The eldest son of James Mehlander & Nancy Ann Welborn Campbell would be cudos enough...I want it ALL!!! LOL.. Thinking that Ellis may have been a middle name...or it may have been Elias, who knows. Marge Margie Campbell Campbell's http://www.lmcam1.com/ (under construction) NuStyle 2100 Visit my Webshots Albums http://community.webshots.com/user/margecam52 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:55:56 -0400 From: Linda Heckerthorn <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Campbell] Don't build your own brick walls To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Excellent advice, Marge. You helped me find my GGGrandfather a few years ago in a MI Prison Census. I have since been to Lansing and solved the rest of the puzzle myself. I couldn't have done it without you! I've just picked up Ancestry.com again, and another nugget of advice from me would be: Don't trust the transcription provided by Ancestry.com at the bottom of the actual census copy. It may be easier and faster to read, but if they can't make out a detail or name from the penmanship on the document, they put what THEY think it is. I have sent in three transcription corrections in a week. I've almost ignored documents because of a wrong name, country of parents, or dates. I can always see exactly how the mistake was made. Reread EVERYTHING!! Thanks again Marge, Lynn Heckerthorn