This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CY.2ADI/301.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Fran There are only 4 copies of the Ricard idex. Two of them are available for public access, one at the Ventura County Museum of History & Art Research Library. The other is at the Fillmore Historical Society. It is a three volume set arranged alphabetically giving biographical references of individuals living in Ventura County at the time it split from Santa Barbara County in 1873. There are no "Stuart's" listed since they arrived after 1873. The VCMHA Library also has a master biographical index covering not only Ricard but other resources. I am related to the Joseph M. Stuart family from Moorpark, Santa Paula & Nordhoff. The other Stuart family settled in the Bardsdale area. Let me know if you have any other questions. CRAIG