Audra: I would suggest you go to the Ellsworth County website: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/ellswort/ and post a query about Aginville. With those directions, it would definitely have been in Ellsworth County. I've never heard of any of those place names or surnames. Tracee

Audra I went to the Kansas State Historical Society site which lists county plat books on microfilm that you can borrow from the Society on Interlibrary Loan (through your local library). Here was the listing for Ellsworth County: Ellsworth County LM 489, no. 15 Plat book of Ellsworth County. Minneapolis: Northwest Publishing Company, 1901. LM 489, no. 16 Standard Atlas of Ellsworth County, Kansas...Chicago: George A. Ogle & Co., 1918. LM 908, no. 1 Pictorial Atlas of Ellsworth County, Kansas... Minneapolis: Overland Cartographers, 1970. If you'll go to the Kansas State Historical Society's Interlibrary Loan page at: http://www.kshs.org/library/illpoli.htm you'll get instructions on how to borrow microfilm from the society through your local library. You can borrow newspapers, census, some old local records and plat books (as well as other stuff). It's a good idea to print off this page and take it to your library so the staff there knows what to do. There is a link on this page to the plat books microfilm collection. The site URL is: http://www.kshs.org/library/atlas.htm Checking under ELLSWORTH County will get you the listing above. Each book has a number that you'll need to use with your interlibrary loan request. My guess (or should I say, "My hope!") is that you'll find mention of just about every geographical location within a county in the plat books. It will also list land owners. Just in case anybody is interested, there are Lincoln COunty plat books available for borrowing from the Society as well. (1901 and 1918) Best of luck Bill Sowers At 04:34 PM 8/7/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Audra: > >I would suggest you go to the Ellsworth County website: > >http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/ellswort/ > >and post a query about Aginville. With those directions, it would >definitely have been in Ellsworth County. >I've never heard of any of those place names or surnames. > >Tracee > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB