Sandra, we are not alone! JC Bodfish mentions the Gibbins spelling. In the 1850 MS census some of the spellings were Givan, Givans, Givens, Givin and Givvins. Givan had the given name Samuel. I believe he will be my next attempt at finding Jane H Boucher, even though he was in Lauderdale Co. Gwen -- Your direct link to Lavaca Co, Texas Genweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlavaca/ Check the Rootsweb archived messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/TXLAVACA-L/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BOUCHER-L/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl