Hi Patty I live in TX and I guess its my turn to ask for help. Isn't this a great list. I've had several very good responses which have sent me in the right direction. I have a ton of obits that I want, but I guess that will have to wait for my trip up there sometime. I am collecting death records, the ones that they have anyway, and some birth rec and marr rec, hoping to find the elusive parents on my Lawrence Kerwin, and his 2 sisters, Mary Doyle and Johanna Damery. I just called today to Macon co and found that they don't have a death rec for Johanna because it was before the law of 1916 of keeping these records. So I am hoping to get her obit and Mary's obit and maybe one of them will give the parents names from Ireland......:-) I am finding that I am related to a lot of people in Christian Co IL, more than I ever knew of. I really apprecitae all the help everyone has given to me too. Thanks Bunches SALLY THANKS.....:-)* Sally Hathaway sjhathaway@aol.com