Karen, I am a descendent of 3 family lines in KY. One I can't find, One I don't anything about except he is a horsetrader and married to my other line, and the final person married the second, then married again and disappeared. You have more luck than I have had. _www.usgenweb.com_ (http://www.usgenweb.com) is a wonderful site to go to. KY has a lot of information on line at the site. You may want to go to some counties and look before you get in the car and go places. Also, rootsweb has a "census look-up" that you can join and they are very helpful. Of course going to the actual census is best. Since your ancestors are in the 1900s you can try the Social Security site. They do have some information about a person if they had a social security no. Also, death certificates have information on them and funeral homes. Birth certificates are also good to have for information. You are lucky that some of these things were in place for your ancestors that were more recent. Census are great. Just finding them on the census is the problem, especially if they moved often. Also, beware that some of the ages may be different and not in relationship to the census before that one! One decade they are 28 and ten years later, they are 49. Note: I was lucky about these census. I found out that some times people are deceptive or the information comes from another source like a neighbor, etc. On one census one of my families had a set of names for the children, the next year, they had a different set of names. Later I found out that one census they listed the first names of the children and the next census they used the middle name. I got the whole package, but in an odd way. My ancestor's brother had George as his name...I later found out that he listed it as G. W. After a long search in the courthouse finding documents on this line, I found out that his name was George Washington and my ancestor was Andrew Jackson. It really put a plug in the naming patterns of the Scots! Finally, IF you have Native American blood lines, there are a lot of wonderful sites on the Internet that would be a great help. Do a search for Native American genealogy and you can come up with a lot of sources. Remember that history was not gentle with people who married into the Native American society. They kept it a secret, especially in the 1800s. You may find it difficult to find your ancestor, but keep digging. I am looking for a Native American line on my tree also. It gets frustrating. I have been at this researching "stuff" since 1997 and I have made great strides and also remain in the same position I was in 97. One day, everything will be discovered if it is possible. I am not kin to your lines that I know of. But, please send me an e-mail with HELP and I will try to do my best to help you. I am not a professional, but have been successful. Researching for ancestors is not an instant discovery! ONE good thing, you meet a lot of people that will be willing to help you, and you also meet a lot of cousins and that is the best part! Talk later. Nora