This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gBB.2ACI/3393.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for all your efforts. Yes, their names really got butchered in their marriage records. I too thought George and Rhoda Burks seemed the most likely parents for Dorcas. However, I viewed George's will on a FHL microfilm and there is no mention of Dorcas or her heirs, and she would have still been alive when he wrote the will, and living in the same area of Indiana. I've been in contact with a couple descendents of George and they have no Dorcas listed in any of their records either. So now I'm considering George's brother Allen James as a possibility, though I have no idea why George would have posted her marriage bond instead of Allen. I did find Daniel in the 1850 census for Jefferson Twp, Putnam Cty, Indiana on p. 478, dwelling 178. Daniel's name was incorrectly indexed as David M French. Daniel H was a son of Daniel & Dorcas. Daniel A was a grand nephew of Daniel.