Nancy, thanks for your reply. My problem is that I don't know if family was in Marion County. The ones I know the names of I can track in TN and GA and then to TX. If there is family in Marion it is people I don't know about and therefore don't know their names. The ones in Marion, if any, are going to be folks I don't know about. My research hunch is that my John Allison went there because their was family there and if that is true, I don't know who they are. This is part of a brick wall search. Is the book you have in the Dallas library by chance? Gil