The last number 11, should have been 12... This is just some other methods genealogist have used in finding female ancestors, these are all accredited or certified genealogists: 1. ...found the names of a woman's parents among her brother's Civil War Records... Early in my genealogical research I attempted to find the parents of my third great grandmother Angeline King, born 25 November 1813, in Kingtown (now Covert) Cayuga (now Seneca) County, New York. She married Ebenezer C. Richardson about 1833 in Greenwood, Steuben County, New York, but soon left with her husband and many of his extended family for Kirtland, Ohio. Many moves later found her in Plain City, Weber County, Utah, where she died 10 April 1880. Following extensive research, I determined that the preponderance of evidence indicated she and her identified fourteen brothers and sisters were children of Ebenezer M. King and his wife Elizabeth or Betsy "surname unknown." For thirty years, "surname unknown" has graces my ancestral pedigree chart. I obtained a death certificate of Angeline's brother William, which verified he was a son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth J. King. Recently I was made aware of a record newly acquired in the Family History Library in Salt Lake city. It is the New York "town Clerk's registers of men who served int he Civil War" (thirty-seven microfilm reels numbered 1992401-437). Shortly after the Civil War began, the town clerks in New York state were provided forms to complete on war registrants. The forms provided space for wonderful genealogical data - if only the town clerks would complete them, and - if only they would survive the more than a century since being distributed. Aware that Angeline's younger brothers were of the age to have served int eh Civil War, I enthusiastically searched the records. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com