Carol, I really don't think we are going to find any connections. I guess we should have both clarified what years we were talking about. Several of my HAINESes moved to Mills Co around 1870... almost 50 years before your HAINEYs lived there. From the list of children I gave you before, I descend from child #6, Elizabeth HAINES (1835-1928) m. Bailey M. PETTY (1832-1899) [my gg grandparents]. They lived in Mills Co from around 1889?-1895?, moved to Benton Co MO for a short time and then to Cass Co NE about 1897. (Took the looong way ~around~ the river! <G> ) Bailey died in Cass Co in 1899 and so did his wife in 1928. Since the other HAINESes were collateral lines, I've only traced some of them an additional generation or two. However most of them moved on to NE, KS, and MT. The only HAINES descendants who I believe are still in the vicinity (desc of child #11) moved to Pottawattamie Co before 1906. Linda _________________________________________________________________ A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.