Dear Barnes Family I'm lost. Just returned from a 40 day family search excursion to Vermont and New York. After several County Courthouses, libraries and cemeteries I still have not found the proper trail. Briefly this is what I know: I descend from David A. Barnes (1801) POB,Vermont. POD, Girard, Branch Co. MI in 1869. Wife; Eliza (1804) POB Vermont. POD, same as David in 1861. Children: Franklin L. (1826) POB, NY. Marriett (1827) POB, NY. Samuel D. (1829) POB, NY. James Ransom (1833) POB, Genesee Co. NY. Edward (1835), POB, NY. George (1837) POB, NY. Addison (1841) POB, MI. Helen/Elizabeth? (1843) POB, MI. Parents of David, Unknown. POB in Vermont, Unknown. Eliza's full name and parents; Unknown Marriage of David and Eliza; Unknown I have some census data that may put the family in Tompkins, County or Livingston, County. A news article obit. that states that the fourth child was born in Genesee County in 1833. Does anyone have information on this family. It is my major stumbling block. Thanks for your help. Lorry Dunning Davis, CA