Someone asked, probably in passing, Where did they live [in Madison Co.]? Kentucky tax lists and deeds (at least on film) specify the watercourse on which most of the tracts of land were located. The Family History Library, as well as I am sure the Kentucky State Archives, and probably University libraries in Kentucky must have some of these films. (I use the FHL films because I do not live in Kentucky.) When trying to track persons who may have been neighbors (and who sooner or later may be relatives), I like to collect persons who lived along the same watercourse. This has helped me, at least in a colonial North Carolina county, differentiate two clusters of families with the same surnames. One was my direct line (my Dad's paternal lineage) and the other married into another family which was my Dad's grandmother's line, and hence his line. If you have not dipped into the filmed tax records of Kentucky, you may be missing some valuable information about your families I found in some of the later ones, tax lists, that is, at least for a Jackson Purchase county, that the taxpayer was asked how many children (I seem to remember school age children) he had. This probably helped the county and the State determine how much financial help the county was going to need. And this info helps us visualize the make-up of the family. The filmed deed indexes for Madison Co. have in the last column of the index, in many cases, the watercourse on which the land was located--unless the land was a city lot. So much to learn and so little time to read microfilm--because of pressing duties elsewhere! E.W.Wallace ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour