This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Wood, Helm, Adkins, Snodgrass, Carter, Atwood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098 Message Board Post: Hello, Some one emailed me with a suggestion on how to find my McFarland family. I lost the email but wanted to tell them Thank you. I finally found the records, Yes, FamilySearch.com did have it after all. BUT I didn't find them under the name I was searching. In fustration I typed in one of the childrens' names that I knew still was "at home", and sure enough there they were. They were not listed as Alexander Miller McFarland, or Alex, or Miller or A. M. or McFarland. They were listed as A. M. Mc Farlan. I had tried all spellings I just didn't think of seperating the Mc from Farland or even dropping the D. And that is how the enumerator wrote it, with out the D. So take heed and try everything then try a child. LOL A very happy lady at, this completes my Census trail of Alexander Miller McFarland from age 10 to his death after 1900. Including 1890 inwhich I was very very lucky on that one as he was listed in the Special Veteran's Schedule. Susie McFarland Lemin