I'm not answering this on the list because for some reason may not be quite grasping the situation... Also, I'm probably pretty "unorthodox" as a genealogical researcher and willing to build more on less that is "proper". <G> But all in all one of my best tricks is to associate people who live close together as possibly being kin... and you're trying to connect two people of the same name who are in different places... and that's got to be magnitudes harder. I can give advice on this better than I can take it... Wills and estate records that exist only in local courthouses... death certificates (supposed to name parents, but don't always do so) from state vital statistics bureaus... or in some cases only in some large metropolitan areas, and maybe still a local record. Confederate service records often show the name of one kinsperson who claims a deceased soldier's enlistment bounty and/or back pay, but not always and sometimes there isn't even a record of them being killed... much less a claim against the Confederate government. On the Confederate approach, you, in this case need a surname and a locality... and it sounds like what you are starting with is awfully nebulous... but you could take some names, guess some localities, and see if there are any matches... then look at their detailed records. And then there is always a hope to contact kin who know more. I have found, that over a very long haul even the most clueless kinperson may have valuable information that they don't even know the identity of themselves. My best photo of my great grandfather Richard Sellars from Thomas County came from a relative who asked me if I had any idea at all who it might be a photograph of... and I recognized him instantly. All in all, if I understand correctly, your potentially most productive direction is towards finding kin that know more. But that may not pan out... and basically you just have to plan on following every possible avenue over a very long campaign... and be glad of anything you learn. Unfortunately... I should warn you that every new bit of knowledge seems to come with one or two ambiguities and every answer creates multiple new questions. It's an unending process, I guess, till you either quit or die. <G> If you will give me the state, county, page number and any other pertinent details I will look at the name on that census page and see if I can make out what's there any differently than you have, or, maybe, any better. <G> There are pages and pages of census information that have faded into absolute oblivion... and even strong, crisp writing isn't always perfectly legible. RW Kate McCain wrote: >In a 2001 posting, I found the following message from Toni Allen: >My profound thanks to Richard White and Allen Singleton! >You both have given me a lot of information on Georgia troops >in the Civil war. >In answer to Allen's question, my cousin was Daniel A. Horn >who was born in NC in 1818, and died in Boston, Thomas Co., Ga. >in 1891. In 1855 he married my great grandfather's sister, >Isabella Jane Hunter McLeod in Marlboro Co., SC, and they >were on the 1860 census living in Thomasville, Ga. (The 1870 >and 1880 showed Boston, Ga.) > >I am trying to establish any connection between this Daniel A (Alexander) >Horn and my grandfather, Daniel Alexander Horn who was born in May, 1891 >in South Carolina. He is recorded in the 1900 Georgia Census as part of a >family of 5 including Annie B (Annabel), Vernon L (female), and Roy D. He >later emigrated to Ohio and then Pennsylvania, where he is recorded in >1930 as having married Esther May Keneipp, my grandmother. > >In the 1860 US census, his father's first name looks like Mac or Mar (only >3 letters) Horn -- born 1851 in SC and his mother is listed as Lizzie, >born in Georgia in 1851. The family lore from my mother was that we were >(1) related to Isabella McLeod (2) that Honoria Sneed/Snead figured in the >family legends somehow, and (3) I had 4 uncles who died at the battle of >Chancellorsville. > >Any insights are welcome. I would be interested in being pointed to a >history of the McLeods of SC, if that work has been published (saw it on a >Horn/Van Horne list with the same genealogical info for the older DA Horn. > >Thanks in advance, > >Kate McCain > >

Apparently I can't even grasp not sending this to the list... <G> Oh well... this is a not unexpected result of not sleeping for a couple of days. My next trick will probably involve an automobile and a treetrunk... either that or a long and unexpected nap in my chair. RW Richard White wrote: > I'm not answering this on the list because for some reason may not be > quite grasping the situation...