Ellen, The listing is still there. Just type in Moranda Bankson and no other information and it comes up. file # 456773. Shirley Rakers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Blackstone" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: [ILCLINTON] Miranda BANKSTON m. David SMITH, 1848? > Hello, Clinton IL list! > > In September, 2000, FamilySearch.org had a listing for > "Moranda BANKSON" marrying in 1848 in "<Clinton>, > Dewitt, Illinois." > > That entry is now missing from that web site. (It might > have been from the IGI, the International Genealogical > Index/NA.) > > I would very much like to find some record of this > marriage. Miranda's father, Andrew James Bankston (or > Bankson) had moved to Dubuque County, Iowa / owning > land also in Wisconsin, by 1838, but perhaps Miranda > (many different spellings for her name--) stayed > behind? ... maybe living with a sister?... I'm trying > to figure why she would be married in IL in 1848 if her > father had left the state ten or more years earlier. > > Likewise, David Smith's brothers moved to Iowa / > Wisconsin, but his parents, John and Gertrude Gilpin > Smith, stayed behind, and died in Lebanon, IL. > > Anybody there have any connections to this family? Any > ideas? > > Will be happy to share what I know. > > Thanks! EB > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- > Ellen Blackstone Everything connects.... > Seattle Washington absolutely everything. > [email protected] --Hazel Wolf, 1898-2000 > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >