Hugh, Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG FASG Is doing a study of the first 1000 applicants for land in MO. The goal is to determine where they migrated from. I think she has completed well over 700 of the names. She has a Lafford French in the pool of applicants. If you go to the Board for Certification web site you can find her address listed in the directory. How I know this is she placed an ad in Genealogy Helper about 10 years ago and I asked her about this at a conference. Margaret