hi, Both families are documented to have been living in Livingston County from at least the 1860's through the 1890's and although the FAIRBANKS weren't listed in a 1985 phone directory the GLASS name was. Additional information with sources can be immediately obtained by visiting my web page at <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston County, Illinois, Genealogical Research</A> and if place names pop up that are not on your map you might find <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/writing.html"> Central & Eastern Illinois Genealogical Research</A> helpful... especially on ghost towns. Although i had planned to have the 1880 US Census included in the surname index by this time viruses and the terrorist attacks and resulting news coverage have slowed me down but it should be added by next month. happy hunting dennis in reply to: In a message dated 9/27/01 8:02:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ILLIVING-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:45:00 EDT From: Nitmuvs@aol.com To: ILLIVING-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <118.53fa418.28e3b46c@aol.com> Subject: [ILLIVING] Re: GLASS and FAIRBANKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm new to this list and have just discovered that my g-grandparents were married in Livingston County. Hope someone here is reasearching these names. JOHN H. GLASS CLARA FAIRBANKS marriage lic. date 7-2-1874 They had a daughter LULU M. GLASS born 9-21-1875 died 9-4-1960 in Mich. they also had a son JAMES GLASS but I have NO info for him or any other children from this union. Sure would appreciate some help with this. Thanks so much. Sally nitmuvs@aol.com