This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/5369.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Jack, Your previous post about finding Lime Rock in Rhode Island was apparently deleted from the Message Board as was my reply about researching in the area so in the event you didn't see it here's the content: **************** Glad to hear that mystery was solved. The family then should be included in that location in their census records. It's part of the Town of Lincoln which I believe is in Providence County. If you look at Mapquest http://www.mapquest.com and just enter Lime Rock and RI as the state you'll see it and the various locations around it. Zoom in for more detail. Since it's part of the Town of Lincoln which has civil registration records, you may be able to get more detailed records for the family there. The local Town Clerk or Town Historian may be able to provide the contact information for the local RC Church too. The Town Historian may also have information from local cemeteries where family members might be buried or even cemetery records or tombstone inscriptions for the cemeteries. Local governmental jurisdictions would also be sources for any of the other locations where the family lived from the US census or other records and may similarly be able to provide local information and contact details for historians, churches, etc. **************** I failed to include in the above reply that the area is part of the Diocese of Providence (RI) which has a website with local church information so you can contact the local church(es) for further detail on your family's church baptism, marriage and death records as well as cemetery records. There are churches in Lincoln which is nearby Lime Rock and you'd just have to determine when the churches were established to be sure of finding the one(es) that may have been there when your family lived in the area: http://www.dioceseofprovidence.org/ Regards. Eilís O'Hara Ireland