Hi Everyone, We've had some people come and go to this list over the past months. With the new year about upon us, I thought it might be time for another go around for your surnames and research interests in Adams Co. How about a brief message listing the SURNAMES you are researching in Adams Co. along with some of your research successes or dead ends? In the meantime, be sure to back up your computer data before Friday night, just in case. As a routine matter, I do a complete backup each month, with interim backups on a daily basis. Better safe than sorry...it's come in handy a couple of times. Here are my primary surnames: SINGLETON, MANN, MCCONNEHEY, KIESS, WARNER, MEWHORTER My greatest success this year is finally locating, after about 20 years, where my g-g-grandfather Singleton lived in 1870 (from the census). I knew he left Pennsylvania by 1864 and appeared in Adams Co. by 1877, but had no clue where he was in between. I had begun a county by county search in the Ohio census records (what a job!). But an index to the 1870 census in Ohio was issued early this year. A quick look in the index gave me the county (Union Co., OH) and it was an easy matter to rent the census film to look up the records. Union was about the last county I would have looked at had the index not been available. Tim Singleton, tsingleton@iclub.org 105 Nancy Drive Richmond, KY 40475-8613 Volunteer INGenWeb Coordinator Adams Co. - http://www.rootsweb.com/~inadams Randolph Co. - http://www.rootsweb.com/~inrandol/