Hi Elaine, You want to look at the Family History Library Catalog and do a locality search for where your Ludington lived. Search on the county and the state level. You can search the catalog at home on the net at familysearch.org, so be prepared when you head for the FHC. Print out from the catalog the films you would like to look at. If you are lucky, some of the films may be at the center already. Take your pedigree chart and family groups of the people you are working on. It is easier for the consultants at the Center to help you if they can see it laid out in chart form. The level of expertise of consultants vary, but some are very good and may be able to give you some good suggestions. Anyway, search everything on microfilm for the locality and time period that you have. Any one of the sources may have the clue you need. Land records are very important. Deeds often give a prior residence, relationships. Look beyond the death year as some land is transferred when probate is complete and I have found as much as twenty years after a persons death. Online, study the locality - the county and surrounding towns. Good luck! Karen Bush (by the way, last month I became the assistant FHC director here at the Page, FHC) From: Dek623@aol.com > Hi, Everybody, > > Mary was very kind to respond to me when I asked her for advice for > researching Comfort Ludington in Duchess County. Now I will ask for > advice from all of you. > > I am planning to make my very first trip to an FHC on Monday. My first > objective is to find some documentation for Comfort Ludington, born > 1770. He is the son of Comfort Ludington, the Rev War hero, born 1740. > I have found him on a few of the early census records as head of > household and he is mentioned in his father's will but I have never > found anything else factual. > > He is listed on many family trees on the web. He is found on the IGI > records that have been member submitted but no documentation > available. I have exhausted my resources on the web and sources for > contacts that may have some primary documentation....so, I am off to a FHC. > > If I copy a list from the online catalog, will I be able to order > those items? > > I welcome all hints and advice. > > Elaine > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LUDDINGTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LUDDINGTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message