hi, I'll be happy to add your family names and anyone else's. As of this morning i've finished extracting and adding A through the letter M of the Livingston County Marriages up to 1900. Don't know if anyone's been able to access the Rootsweb Livingston County site but i recently posted all of the Livingston County Marriages up to 1900 at the site... it was a bit of cut and paste from the Illinois site to do this. If i understand the new system correctly (someone please correct me if i'm wrong) by having all of those marriages posted if someone puts an unusual name in a search engine, that happens to've been married in our county, it will pop up as a match. Hopefully it'll soon be like popcorn popping with matches all across the country. If this works okay i'll soon be doing the same thing for some of our neighboring counties, McLean, Iroquois, and Ford, as some of our ancestors' kin probably married in an neighboring county. I've already extracted the other county marriages from the site and am ready to do massive cutting and pasting, as soon as the system is up and running again. Its hard to eat popcorn and do the keyboard at the same time... if anyone wants me to do another neighboring counties, besides the three listed above, i will... just drop me a line... otherwise i'll continue digging up names to add to the Livingston County site listed above. For anyone just joining in on the conversation, the site that has the towns, townships, and a gigantic list of everyone who's lived in Livingston County (so far there's over a dozen sources listed at the bottom, anyone have ideas for databases i can extract more names from? Does anyone know if the 1880 US Census on CD has a way i could extract the surnames in alphabetical order? I'm thinking of gleaning surnames from the Rootsweb County site) the url is: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/business.html"> Livingston Co, Illinois Genealogical Research</A> Can't figure out why i'm getting several replies to posting on the new Rootsweb when everytime i try to visit there the screen is a blank form... recently a bright yellow box appears telling me to try back in 6 to 8 hours. Maybe the replies are old ones?? Anyone know? I've been spending most of my time lately added extractions to my web page so i haven't kept up on the Rootsweb county site. Some of the messages say that i'm the author of the message, which doesn't make sense to me and its the same for several other boards i'm tied into... i have about a dozen messages from Rootsweb that are piling up. thanx dennis ps please, just call me "dennis" and not "Mr"... whenever i see or hear "Mr" i still look around for my father, and he passed on over 30 years ago... its a spooky feeling pps Defenbaugh has at least four spellings so far in reply to > Mr. Carter, > I would like to submit a family who lived in Livingston Co., Illinois. > This parents came from Germany to York Co., Pa. They were in Pickaway Co., > Ohio for the 1840 and 1850 Census. The father's given name is Christian and > his son's given name is Edward. > > In the October, 1855 Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward > WALTHAN/WULTHANand Christian WALTHAN/WULTHAN. > In the 1860 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are listed as Edward > WILSON and Christian WILSON. > In the 1865 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census they are lised as E. > WOLSON and C. WOLSON. > In the 1870 Reading Twp, Livingston Co. Census Christian WOOLSON is > living with the Henry WESNER and wife > Esther (Defenbaugh) Wesner. > In the 1880 Eagle Twp., LaSalle Co., Census they are listed as Edward > WULZEN and Christian WULZEN. > > I have other spelling variations found in other documents but > descendants today are using WULTZEN and WULZEN. Christian's daughters > married into the DEFENBAUGH, EMMONS, FOWLER, FIELD and OBERLANDER/OBERLENDER > families. > > I will be glad to answer any questions. Regards.....Glenda Argo