This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blackford, Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/963.1 Message Board Post: Janet, one correction, earlier I had responded to a message you posted in Whiteside county with the following: I found them, but NOT in Whiteside, used my Ancestry account and found: BLACKFORD, JOHN State: IL Year: 1850 County: Carroll County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule Township: Harlem Township Page: 368 Database: IL 1850 Federal Census Index Looking at the census, the entry is: John Blackford 28 M Farmer $400 NY Lida 23 F Ohio This shows that John Blackford was born in NEW YORK, NOT Illinois! From the Illinois Marriage Index, BLACKFORD, JOHN BROWN, LYDIA CARROLL 01/02/1848 OMR/0002 00000190 so they married in January of 1848, in Carroll County. Bob