This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ig.2ADI/808 Message Board Post: If someone has access to the 1860 Jersey county ,Illinois census, could you please look and see if by chance my ancestor Folkert W. Gerdes is found there?? He may be under FW or FM...sometimes the old script W is read as M..or just F. Gerdes. Thank-you so very much. Betty ([email protected]) PS he would be around 24-27..born Oct 1834 but the ages are sometimes a little off on this census.