A Happy and Prosperous 1999 to All, Earlier I had posted notice of my Most Wanted James Kelly (a great grandfather). I finally found him in the 1860 census for Michigan. That's the short of it. If you have a minute, here is the longer of it. I was fairly certain he would be in Michigan as his wife to be moved from Ontario, Canada to Michigan in 1855. I used BLM's land sales site to find James Kellys who had purchased land in Michigan and there was one in 1855 in St. Clair County. Using the FHC's township books I found the named TWP that corresponded to the deed description. I ordered the 1860 census and waited anxiously. It finally came and I went right to Emmett TWP and there was a James Kelly. Whoops, his wife's name was Elizabeth, and not Margaret. Well so much for that research. It was not yet quite lunch time so I decided to just look on a bit on the reel - just 5 dwellings away was another James Kelly and he had a wife Margaret and sons John and William and a daughter Mary - just like he should - gloom gave way to elation. Moreover, just two dwellings away was Margaret's mother, Catherine Morrisey, and four of her other children. (Father, John, had died in Ontario in 1852.) There, I had it in spades, but oh how close I came to missing it. Am now in the process of tracking down James' Civil War record. According to Margaret's obituary in 1904, he had died in 1865 without returning from the war. Iral Nelson