I don't know why it's taken me this long to wake up to the fact that the many MD Catholics I tracked from counties like St. Mary's, Frederick, Prince George, and others... to KY counties like Washington, Nelson, Hardin, Marion, Graves, Union, and others... were sure to trek farther west, across the Mississippi River (where would they have crossed????)... into MO counties like Perry, St. Francis, St. Genevieve, Scott, Mississippi, and others... *********** Wake up Marylanders & Kentuckians...go west with your genealogy research. There are some great rootsweb lists available in Missouri where a lot of our ancestors settled (before going farther west?). Good luck. Here we come! Francine Conn Halter Tracing a lot of MD Catholic surname & having a lot of fun doing it...with the help of our global friends.