Mr. Oliver, You are right. We are way too quiet. Ted Cash is away for a time. Let's get some things out of interest to everyone. Don't keep your latest discovery secret. Let us all know. I have been corresponding with the volunteers of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild <http://istg.rootsweb.com>. They have transcribed over 800 ships passenger lists and my JANSSEN family from Germany was on one of them. This is a marvelous and valuable project. Did y'all hear about the new project to reconstruct information for the 1890 census? Many of us know where our ancestors were then and if we all submitted that information to the volunteers of the project, soon there would be a source for everyone to use. As soon as I can scare up the Internet address, I will pass it along. Pamela Bane Baneshe42@aol.com Searching for: My grgrgrandfather, Alexander M. E. MARTIN, was, according to the history of Clay County, into just about everything. A Elder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, he also held various township (Xenia) offices, was Supervisor of the township for 4 years. He married 3 times and died in 1912 in his late 70s, leaving 8 children. Most of this I have not yet proved, so I have some work cut out for me. The family is connected to George THING, a saddler/harness maker, who moved to Clay County from Indiana in the 1850s, with his wife, America RUSHER and their first 2 children, Mary and Lorentus. Mary became the wife of J. R. CHANDLER, a merchant in Wayne City and Lorentus married Rose MARTIN in 1879. Do these names ring any bells?