Wow, I've had so many nice replies to my query about the Annandale Estates area. Isn't this strange? I wonder if perhaps there wasn't a area by that name in Brown Co. back in the 1880's, as there is evidence that my Grandmother was born there. Also we know her father was living in Brown Co. at some time. His wife was from New Castle, so it's not unlikely that they might have been down there. Thanks everyone so much for all your correspondence, I'm disappointed of course, but isn't that the way with genealogy, always a up or down, but in time it usually works out. Records for my Grandmother, Myrtle Rosalee Houchins, are hard to find as she was put into a foster home when she was just a small child, about 4 years of age, as her mother died shortly after child birth, as were her sister's and brothers. There were 9 children in all, but she was the only one that the foster parents changed residences, and moved out here to WA. All her children thought she was adopted by her foster parents as she went by their last name of McDonald. However I found in some very old records of her foster father's Will, she was named as his foster daughter. This really surprised everyone, so since then I've been looking for further records for her, but all I come up with is she was born in IN according to the 1880 MN census. Evidently they moved from IN to MN during her first year. Thanks again. Hope to visit that beautiful area in the future. Myrna Casey