hi, The CLASPER surname pops up as having lived in Livingston County in the 1860's & 1890's... for documentation you should visit my web page at <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research</A> and if you should need help on the place names of the multi county are you should visit <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/writing.html"> Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research</A> which will soon have more counties listed. happy hunting dennis in reply to: In a message dated 9/29/01 10:01:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ILLIVING-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:32:14 EDT From: Judyandlee100@cs.com To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5f.1b7e5e09.28e6546e@cs.com> Subject: Re: [ILLIVING] Lighterholder surname Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit do you have any info on the Clasper family....current or past? >>