On 5/18/04 1:59 PM, "Dan Hogan" <dhogan@porterville.k12.ca.us> wrote: > The one document that would supply the missing link in your >> dead-end line has been lost due to fire, flood or war. >> Man, that one sounds way too familiar. My g-grandfather was supposedly born in Kansas about 1885. I finally found him and his family on the 1880 census records, so I knew his father's name, but all it said was that his father was born on Pennsylvania. I needed more detail, so I tried to get his birth certificate. The Kansas records are kept in the state archives from 1911 onward. Anything prior is in the county offices. I wrote to the county where they lived in 1880, looking for better documentation, but they told me all their records had been lost, and they said nothing existed, so I am back at square one. Challenges are what make it interesting, right? -- We will not forget! www.remember-9-11.com www.ciarancummings.com