Freedom wrote: > > My ggrandfather Francis Archibald Gordon born 1863 in Plattsburg, NY > (married Harriet Matilda Stuart of Guildhall, VT)raised three (3) children > Florence, Inez & Francis (Frank) Jr. in Lancaster, NH..is buried in Summer > Street Cemetary in Lancaster, NH. > Have wondered about his parents...Francis SS application says parents were > GEORGE ALEXANDER GORDON and Matilda Boyd (of Plattsburg, NY)..due to the > unavailability of additional records from Plattsburg, am unable to link my > George Alexander probably born about 1833+/-. As family names are commonly > carried from one generation to another and > my Gordon family ended up in NH... could there be a link from my George > Alexander back to > your George? > Is a succession line available in the book? Would appreciate any assistance > I could get. > Thank you, > Linda T. Cloutier > . . . Linda --- Have you checked Federal census records? How about State censuses? I know NY did some censuses in some areas; but I can't be sure of the area you're looking at. George Alexander certainly would have been old to serve in the Civil War, Have you checked for a service record, a pension file or a wdiow's pension file? How about the LDS IGI on-line file at www.famlysearch.org? How about church records for baptism/christening, marriage and funeral/burial? Have you check the Lancaster paper(s) for obits? On this last, do a search for Newspapers on www.google.com. You'll get a return for Newspapers in Print and another one for newspapers by state, whether in print or out of print. If the paper has an e-mail address (lots of them do these days), you can ask them to search their archives for the obit. When you get the obit, then you can write to the funeral director/undetaker and see if they can give details from the funeral records. -- Cheers, Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA