This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gAB.2ACI/1509.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Suzanne, The reference that you give to page 269 Highland District in the 1870 Campbell County census is the information that George Reckers sent you and that you said was not your family. A new index to the 1870 Census for the State of Kentucky give this same reference for Nathanil. The family name is spelled EMMERSON in this reference. In Campbell County there are three other families named Em(m)erson listed. Emmerson, John age 28, painter, born in OH Marie, age 26, Keeps house, born ENG George, age 4 born KY Emma, age 2 born KY They lived in Dayton, KY (Reel 453, page 204 Emerson, George, age 35, farmer, born in OH Amelia, age 38, Keeps house, born in ENG George, age 10, at home, born in OH They lived in Cold Spring Precinct, Reel453,pg 181 Emerson, Wm, age 47, trunk maker, born in VA Margaret, age 47, Keeps house, born in PA Nathan, age 19, stone cutter, born in MD William, age 17, born in MD Alonzo, age 14 born in KY Mary, age 12 born in KY They lived in Newport, Reel 453, page 366 The index also lists two more EMERSON families in counties that touch on Campbell county. KENTON COUNTY: Emerson, James, age 38, born in OH They lived in the 8th Ward, Covington Reel 478, page 126. PENDLETON COUNTY: Emerson, Thomas, age 50 born in VA. They live in Butler PO Reel 494, page 526 There are a total of 36 families under the spelling EMERSON plus 23 families under the spelling EMMERSON Bob