Did you try the 1850 California census? My Illinois ancestor was there. ----------------- At 05:18 PM 1/27/00 -0900, you wrote: >I can account for all of them in the 1850 census but not James. ------------ Joan Black Lund My passion is Genealogy. http://www.tbox.com/isgs http://www.tbox.com/ccgs http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~j-lund http://aiep.german.uiuc.edu http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/study.abroad/spain.html http://www.ealc.uiuc.edu/yij/yij.htm