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/iUI.2ACIB/1959.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know of an easy way to do this. First, this is not my Chandler line, and I'm not familiar with them or the area. So what I would do is probably not the best way to proceed. First I guess I'd want to confirm that the "M" is correct by looking at an image of the actual census page. Unfortunately my HeritageQuest subscription doesn't cover 1880, but I believe that an Ancestry.com census image subscription would, so if you could find someone to check that it might be a good start. Often the children of one family would live next to their parents, but there seemed to be no other Chandlers in Marshall. The other families were in Ivy and White Rock, and they tended to be clustered. I didn't check all of them, so I guess the next thing I'd do, since I have the images available, would be go through all of them and see if there's a male the right age who looks possible. I've got a slow dial-up connection, though, and it takes me a long time. If you can get to a Family History Center you might want to check some of the filmed records of marriages, land records, and so on that you can rent from the LDS Family History Library. You can search the catalog online here: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Marshall is on the county line I think, so maybe the family was from an adjacent county--I did try one and didn't find anything. Madison County was formed from Buncombe and Yancey Counties, and there's an Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society that might be able to help. Their website might give you some ideas http://www.obcgs.com/ Madison County was named for James Madison and Marshall was named for John Marshall. This happened more or less around the time of the Civil War and feelings were probably fairly strong. I noticed in the census index that there were James. M and John M. individuals as well as some Andrew Jackson _____ individuals, so it is possible that if that "M" is correct it's a middle name (I noticed one Jackson Chandler seemed to be the Andrew Jackson Chandler I saw elsewhere). So you might possibly be looking for a James or John. Incidentally, Ida Belle was a hugely popular name in the latter 1800s, but I have no idea why--perhaps from some popular figure in history or literature.