Hi! Linda Do you have BULLMAN, LONG, PIERCE, BOES, HELMER, EICKMEIER, and RADCLIFF/E in your database? My Nelson Bullman owned land in Wheatland Twp., Bureau Co., Ill., from about 1844 to 1860. I know quite a lot about him except his death date and place of burial. He is evidently buried at a cemetery around the old Lone Tree area and there are no markers. Just wondering!!! mr Matthews wrote: > > I just joined this mailing list last night. I got two indirect responses - > one of which turned out to be a surname (Maxwell) for someone that married > my fourth cousin and the other surname (Pratt) sounded familiar but was not > in my database as a relative. > > OK folks, sounds like there is a 50-50 chance so far that I'm related to > your ancestors/relatives in Bureau County either through blood or marriage. > Shall we put it to the test just for fun? Some of the surnames are ABEL, > ALBRECHT, ANDERSON, FINDLEY, FORDHAM, FREASE, HEATON, IODER, HENSEL, NOBLE, > STEELE, ZEARING and there are some marriage connections to ELDRIDGE, > WILSON, SCOTT. There are plenty more that I could list if I wasn't so tired > right now. I spent a good part of my first 20+ years in Bureau County. My > ancestors were among the very first settlers. Meet my challenge...send me > your Bureau County names! Only sure Bureau County names count in this test! > We'll see if I can keep up to 50-50 relative ratio! > > I don't know how many people are on this mailing list but I will be visiting > family in Bureau County later this month and am willing to TRY to do some > look-ups at the library (in the OBIT files, marriage index, Bureau Co. > Republican microfilm). Just sent me specific names and exact or approximate > dates soon and I'll see what I can do. I won't be going to the court house > this trip so please don't request birth certificates, wills, etc. that are > normally found in the courthouse files. We'll see if I'm ambitious or crazy > by the number of responses I get. > > Linda Matthews