Sharon, going from your e-mail and the replies, I believe this is your Ezekiel Davis, based on birth date: Ezekiel Davis - 31 MAY 1790, Salem, New Jersey If this is the correct birth date for your Ezekiel, then you now have the county and state and you can request information from there. It is highly doubtful that there would be birth records for that time period, but you may be able to find marriage records, or church records such as baptism This information, by the way, is from the LDS's free genealogy site. Website is: http://www.familysearch.org/ In "Centennial history of Madison County, Illinois, and its people : 1812 to 1912" by William T. Norton, Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1970, 1363 pgs., there is a one-line reference to Ezekiel Davis on page 590 regarding Omph-Ghent Township: "Other early settlers prior to 1830, were Charles Tindall, Ezekiel Davis and Samuel H. Denton." In "Gazetteer of Madison County " by James T. Hair, Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1973, 293 pgs., the following one-line reference to Ezekiel Davis is found under "Madison County Directory" on page 590: "Davis, Ezekiel early settler, died 1863, 6-7 Omphghent." 6-7 refers to Township 6 North, Range 7 West. There is also a William F. Davis listed in the same township, at Lambs Point post office. The above were found through the Heritage Quest databases, an on-line, searchable service. Some libraries offer free, 24-hour, at-home access to Heritage Quest if you have a library card. St. Louis City and St. Louis County libraries offer this; at one time, Edwardsville and Collinsville libraries also offered it. Check with your library. For more information on Heritage Quest, look on the IL-Gen Web site under "Madison County Libraries" - information can be found under "St. Louis City Library" and "St. Louis County Library" (the only two that I knew for sure offered access) - scroll down to the bottom of the each page and look for "3. Online Databases." The ILGenWeb site is http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmadiso/ I know this doesn't directly answer your query as to who his father was, but every little bit of information may lead to something further on. At 04:13 PM 9/5/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > I would like to know if any one has access to the 1860 census for > Madison Co., IL. I would like to know if someone would find out where > the father of Ezekiel Davis, Omphghent Twp, was born at. I belive that > Ezekiel and at least 4 of his children were born in NJ., but I am having > trouble finding out who his father is and where the father was born > at. Maybe if I can find birth-state, it will make the search easier. > I am like other people, I like to go through correspondence with a > genealogy or history correspondence, instead of "paying for information" > that should be free to the public. >Thanks, >Sharon (Davis) Sherman > > >==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== >Difference between ILMADISO-L and ILMADISO-D: >ILMADISO-L mailing list allows you to receive every posting made to >ILMADISO as a separate email. >ILMADISO-D mailing list allows you to receive several postings as a single >large message. Carrie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...Then they filled, with clear, shallow water, the whole breadth of this broad canal, and set little whirlpools turning in the depths, and for the first time mirrored the green banks and distant calls of birds -- while in the sky the starry nights of another, sweeter country blossomed above them and would never close. Tombs of the Hetaerae, by Rainier Maria Rilke Translation by Stephen Mitchell