I need some help in fleshing out the bare bones of my story. A 'net friend has given me an 1880 Census entry which reads Census Place: Bald Mountain Hill and Breece Hill, Lake, Colorado. Source given. James GRIFFITHS, engineer; self, M M W, 29, b S. Wales, Fa and Mo also b S Wales Margaret " keeps house; wife F M W, 27, " " " Elizabeth Ann, dau, F S W, 3, born PA William, son, M S W, 1, born CO Over the past few days a handful of incredibly kind people have filled out my knowledge of Colorado, Lake County, Leadville, even Breece Hill, even Captain Breece himself! (But I still don't know if Breece is a Welsh name . . .) I even know what a fourteener is! Now comes the beginning of the hard work - I have had a look at on-line indexes to libraries and archives, without avail. Manifestly the Griffiths couple moved to Leadville environs after the birth of the daughter and before the birth of the son. It seems logical to deduce that James Griffiths was a mining engineer. Be that as it may, he seemed to be drawing a reasonable salary, as at some stage after he himself emigrated (ca 1870?), he sent money back to his mother in UK for the purpose of paying the passage of his younger brother William to join him in the USA. Later, when William was livng in Australia, James visited him - I have a photograph of the two of them. Now, assuming that they remained in Colorado - is there anyone who might have a connection to this family? Are there electoral rolls or suchlike which I could consult. Records of birth of further children? And so on. There are one or two kind folk in Colorado who are looking out on my behalf, but it seemed (from past experience) that joining a Rootsweb group was a Good Idea. If they did not remain in Colorado, I have a harder task. I live in Canberra, Australia, and my knowledge of US geography is abysmal (Colorado has improved a thousandfold in the past few days, however). I did not yet tell you the relevant point - William the younger brother of James Griffiths was my grandfather; James, thus, my great-uncle, and those tiny children my first cousins once removed. James and William were born in Llandewi Ystradenny, Rads, Wales, sons of James and Hannah Griffiths. In expectation of some distant cousins popping up - Lois
I have a listing of 6 Griffiths that passed away in Leadville. Gail