Virginia has suggested that some of you may not be acquainted with what is available from the Family History Centers at the your local Latter Day Saints. I recommend that you all visit, and ask the volunteers there to help you with your research. A couple of things to keep in mind; the information found in the Ancestral files, and much of what is in the IGI is non-documented; it is simply information that is submitted by individuals, and is in no way checked for correctness. So, take what you find in these 2 resources as a clue ONLY, and not as a truth; you must ALWAYS go on to either prove or disprove what you find there with your own primary research! Both these files are full of provable errors, so don't accept things as fact! For me, the most valuable asset at the LDS is the silver CD of the holdings at the library in Salt Lake. By using this, you may do a location search; Baldwin county, for instance, and this CD will tell you what they have at Salt Lake on Baldwin county. It will be divided into various categories, and you may "explore" these to see what you might be interested in; tax records, probate, cemetery records, etc........all will be listed. You may then order any of the records that are on film (they will not send books) for $3.50 rental fee for about a month....when the films arrive you will be called, and can then visit and view them while they remain there. In this way you may see any census records from any county in the country, many foreign records (i.e.. English and Scottish parish records), passenger lists, naturalization records, deeds, and many many more.........the only way to know what they have on the particular area/county/town you're interested in is to do a locality search and see what is available. http://www.familysearch.com/default.asp this is the online site for the LDS....it doesn't contain the ability to do the above locality searches (which must be done at your local FHC), it is mainly just the ancestral Files...So, by all means, type in you ancestors and see what you find....just remember, nothing you find is a fact, so don't accept it as being true! Sandra