This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKj.2ACIB/342.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know what you mean by "done the censuses"--if it costs money, then no. If it's on the web someplace, can you tell me how to find them? Tulare is farther south than I think my Dad's family was from. He was born in Alameda in the Bay Area. But, you never know, they might have relocated. When I was a little girl I read some mimeographed copy of a diary of some Hinds family that came across the West in a covered wagon. Daddy said that we were related to the man that wrote the diary. That man was a Reverend of some kind. But, unfortunately, I can't find that paper, and don't remember the name of the man. I don't even know how we were related to him. Thanks for your help! My Dad's family is a total mystery to me--he never talked about them. I only met my grandmother once, when I was 5 years old. She was very sick and died shortly afterwards. He never once mentioned his father in my whole life, and he was the kind of man that you just didn't pry into things about him. I didn't know he had a brother until both my parents had passed--and I found some of my dad's childhood pictures with names on the back!