Amber The Rootsweb World Connect got me this posting and maybe your Richardson family will be in the book cited below. With the input of that posting I have gotten to go back another generation!!! and can look for the Civil War records which is something I suggest to the patrons at the Family History Center do yet I have never done myself. (I volunteer at the Family History Center each Thursday) Joseph and Nancy(Taylor)Richardson have 4 sons and 1 daughter. I only know information on 3 of the sons. William via census data; Edward via Hancock Ill scrapbook film from Salt Lake City FHC collection; Harrison Albert who is my direct line. Do not know more on Joseph S. or Mary pass the 1880 census I have copied the index of the Illinois 1850 and 1860 census would you have need of them? Also have photocopy (Richardson name) of A General and Everyname Index to the History of Hancock County, Illinois (12 fiche #6046998 is in the my local FHC) by Hugh Mc Harry which is index of the 1880 text of the Family History Library film (I will need to look the number up if you need it) How successful have you been looking and tracking your family through the census? 1850 census list all the family members by name and age!! 1880 ? or 1900 census list the birthplace (at least the state) of the mother and father of each person!! I can sent this to you through the "snail mail" good old Uncle Sam. I do not do all the fancy stuff of scanner etc. Take Care and Happy Hunting Georgia Posted by Gary E. Nelson <bowen59@adams.net> on Sun, 09 Jan 2000, in response to Surname, posted by Georgia Hartwell on Tue, 04 Jan 2000 Surname: The following is extracted from "Pioneers of the Prairie" by Wilma Brunner, p. 663-664. RICHARDSON, JOSEPH - born April 12, 1829 in Tennessee, died October 19, 1912, a son of James and Elizabeth Whitler Richardson. He is buried in the Cook Cemetery. In 1852 he married Nancy Jane Taylor born 1838 in Kentucky, she died March 3, 1910. Mrs. Richardson came to Hancock County with her parents when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson moved to Harrison County, Missouri in 1856, where their son, William was born in 1858. Because of the border warfare, they traveled in a covered wagon to the Mississippi River, crossing the ferry at Warsaw. The settled near Oakwood in the vicinity of Hamilton, Later moving to St. Albans Township. Mr. Richardson was a veteran of the Civil War, Cpl. 14th. ILL. Inf.