You wrote: Do you have any info.on simon Lucas Harris born in Va. 1795 Thanks Francis Harris Response: Where were your Harrises located? Any ideas? You may have to begin with the 1930 census (online--subscription only) and then carefully work your way backwards to be sure you have the right Harris. Who did this man marry? Where was his land? All kinds of questions you have to ask yourself. Has someone done a genealogy on your Harris family? My leads came from a genealogy called The Boone Family, but others have studied my particular Harris family (including some DAR applications), and all I have had to do is try to be sure their facts were straight!!!! (Many old genealogies, which are better most of the time, than the newer ones, are flawed, and one cannot rely on them totally. As my genealogist-lecuturer-librarian friend says, Prove it!!! It would help if you knew where your people were located, as by the time your person was allegedly born, many Virginia families had moved to Kentucky. I am assuming your person was born in Virginia--what an assumption!!! If the birthplace was Virginia, one of your better leads for that time period are some hard-to-locate books called the 1787 Census of Virginia. These are p ersonal property tax lists for the year 1787, soon after the American Revolution. They include all the counties of Kentucky as well as of Virginia, but I have to warn you there are LOTS of Harrises. And, unless you know the names of the parents of your Harris, you will have to search all of them. That is a shotgun approach--you may hit the target, but again, you may not. These volumes were compiled by Nettie Schreiner-Yantis and Florine S. Love. There are three volumes, with the 3rd vol. being the index to the preceding two volumes. They are rather costly, and only large libraries, unless the libraries are in Virginia, will have them. Try a University or college library near you. Most, if not all of them, have online catalogs these days. If you don't know much about the possible location of your Harris family for that period, then you are in for a LOT of work. Most genealogists insist that you begin with censuses and work your way backwards. Why? Because the censuses from 1850 through the 1930 census give information about birthplaces, sometimes immigration dates, sometimes how long one has been married, whether they rent or own their own homes, birthplaces of parents, etc. Each census year asked different questions, of course. For example, the 1880 census asks each enumerated person where his parents were born. This information got my great-grandfather's origins back to another State--and was that luck!!! I hope you know more about your Harris than is indicated in your query. E.W.Wallace