This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: BWooll Surnames: Carson Finley Kerr McCormick McCreight Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.carson/744.3.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Debi, I have a good bit of data that Mom acquired by communicating mostly with her 3rd cousin Floy McCreight. Floy's grandmother was Isabella Jane "Jennie" Carson, the daughter of William Gilmore Carson. He and Ebenezer Carson, our g-g-grandfather, were brothers and their father was Wilson Carson. Some of Floy's papers indicate that these two brothers had several other brothers that never married. I did some more looking this week and have found many connections -- too much data to show here. For the benefit of other comments in this chain - (Jean) I found Maggie with Wm & Phileana Mccormick in El Dorado, California in the 1870 Census; I have not discovered how they are related. Thank you for that information. (taarcangel) I saw that you had corrected the nearly-illegible Ancestry record to show Almyra instead of Clarissa-Good. (Linda) Please let me know where the "Kerr" comes from in Elizabeth Finley's name; and, yes, she is the wife of William Gilmore. I did not find a connection to Catharine, either, but that IS our Ebenezer in Kosciusko County as you thought. (Marguerite) The names that you found in the 1880 Census in Woodford, Illinois are the five single brother's and sisters that I mentioned above. And the three nephews and one niece in the household are the children of my g-g-grandfather Ebenezer. I have no record of Ebenezer's death (does anyone?). Debi, I don't recall seeing any references to Ralph or Leslie. I wrote you through Ancestry but guess you didn't get it. I am just about to stop the genealogy project(s) for the summer but I do have several documents that I'd love to share with you. Please write me ASAP using my "firstname" at "mylastname" decimal com. Bobbie Wooll Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.