This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Power, Gorey, Cregan, King, O'neil, Mars, Moran Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xFh.2ACEB/4504 Message Board Post: Hi... I need some advise. My gr-gr-grand father SIMEON MOORE HAMILTON born about 1836 - 38 in Mercer Co. I've tracked from 1860 census until his death in 1920's in Mercer Co. But, I could not can not find him in the 1850 census for any county in PA. All records of him state he was born in PA. By chance I ran just his first name on Ancestry.com for PA. and in the 1850 Delaware, Mercer Co., PA. census I found a SIMEON MOORE born 1836 in PA. Any idea's as to how I could found out if his parents died and he was adopted by a local HAMILTON family. Or his mother re-married. On All of SIMEON's records he always uses MOORE as his middle name. Or if anyone on this list is researching the MOORE family from Mercer Co.could you contact me Then I received this lead : from Janice Eby Barbeau who is researching the David Porter family from Mercer Co., PA. Norm, Simeon Hamilton Moore was the son of James Moore. Listed in the 1860 Census, Hamburg PO, Delaware Township, Mercer County, PA. He was 24 at the time. He was also the brother of my, Charlotte Moore, who married David Porter. They were listed in the same household with James Moore. Still working on this family. I can not find any info on SIMEON before the 1860 census. Nothing that I have list his parents or brothers or sisters. Even his Civil War service records do not list his parents. Nor does his death obit from 1927 in Fredonia, Mercer Co., PA. I'm starting to think that SIMEON maybe a MOORE. And that he either used his mother's maiden name of Hamilton ? or she re-married ? But I can't find her either, except a Nancy Moore listed with a James Moore in the 1850 census in Mercer Co., PA. with a son Simeon age 14 yrs old. Which would be the age of my Simeon ??????? Thanks, Norm Hamilton Lancaster, NY