Gail, I am happy to have any information that may lead to my great-uncle James Griffiths! YesterdAy was Great Leap Forward day, as I now have his Leadville address in 1882 - someone looked him up for me in the Leadville Directory for that year! Yet another lister advocated that I contact the Colorado Genealogical Society, but alas the e-address on their website wasn't functional. Do you think I might repeat here the text of the message I sent them? Someone might have more clues for me: Message: Good morning from rainy, cold Canberra, Australia! One of the kind COLAKE Listers has given me your address, in hopes that you might be able to put me on to people who know. My problem is of course that there are no records in my local libraries which help in the least in the quest for my great-uncle! His name was James GRIFFITHS. He was born about 1851 in Radnorshire, Wales, son of James Griffiths and his wife Hannah née Lloyd. During his childhood, the mother moved across the border into England, and they lived in Manchester for a time. James went to the United States, probably in the early 1870s (I am still searching on-line shipping lists). He married Margaret, also Welsh born of Welsh stock. Surname not yet known. According to the 1880 census, he, 29, engineer, and she, 27,'keeps house', plus two children: Elizabeth Ann born ca 1977 PA, and William b ca 1879 CO, were in the Census District of 'Bald Mountain Hill and Breece Hill, Colorado'. I have learnt this morning that James Griffiths is in the 1882 Leadville directory as engineer, residence, 816 East 5th Street, Leadville, Colorado. And that is virtually all I have established as yet. Two or three wonderful people, including a couple of ex-mining men, have supplied me with excellent background information on Colorado, the mining industry there, Leadville itself, etc. I have from the internet a putative marriage for the girl, and a putative death for the boy, but these remain as speculation, as I don't yet know whether the Griffiths family were permanents or transients, in the Leadville area. I do know that at some stage near the turn of the century, he came to Australia to visit his younger brother (who was my grandfather, William). I have a photograph of the two of them together. Now, dear people, suggestions, please! What can I look up myself? In cases where the data are not available to me, could someone there do an occasional lookup, as we do here for those far away. Over to you, with my thanks! Lois