Is that right? That is very interesting! Thanks so much. I will absolutely look more into that. Excellent clue! Martha > From: babybibs2@peoplepc.com> To: kygreenu@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:35:23 -0400> Subject: Re: [KYGREENU] Searching for William BIGGS' home, 1860> > For what it's worth, there was a Biggs family that lived in a big house, > just before you turned off of Rt. 23, onto East Tygart Rd. near South Shore, > KY. They had a grocery store next to the house. I believe his name was > Bill Biggs, the best I can remember. Possibly a descendant of the original > one. I also think they did own oa lot of land in that area.> As far as time, it had to be back in about the early 1950's.> I don't know if this is any help or not, just telling what I know about the > Biggs family and the area of land they had.> Bless you in your search.> Pat Hampton> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "martha brunson" <marthabrunson@hotmail.com>> To: <kygreenu@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:35 PM> Subject: [KYGREENU] Searching for William BIGGS' home, 1860> > > >> >> >> >> >> > Hello list. I am searching for the location of William Biggs' property.> > He is listed in the 1860 census, Greenupsburg, Greenup Co., age 59,> > but I do not know how to find his property location. It must have> > been huge, he values his real estate at $30,000, same goes for his> > personal estate. Asking the land patent office, they tell me I need> > to know date he aquired the property, and the location to send me> > a deed. Well, I wanted the deed from them first in order to find the> > location! Does anyone know how I can narrow down my search for> > his property?> > Thanks in advance.> > Martha> >> > _________________________________________________________________> > _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us