Linda wrote: "My ancestor George Storts / Steorts / Sturtz / Stots / Stotz / Steortz / etc was born in 1769 near Hagerstown according to the 1850 census. His father, whose name may have been George or Frederick, was supposed to have come from Germany and fought in the Revolutionary War. Old family notes say the family lived near Gettysburg at an early date before two brothers went west over Braddock's old road. One brother went on West and my ancestor George Steorts bought land in 1817 near the Harrison / Lewis County line on Hacker's Creek on what is today Route 19. . . . [snip]. I have wondered if the father could have died in the Revolutionary War." The 1850 US Census for Lewis County, (West) Virginia states your George was born in "Md.", not in or near "Hagerstown." There are indeed occasional local 1850 enumerations that give a County of birth, but this is not one of them (Lewis was set off from Harrison and Randolph Counties in 1816). Back in August you said in a post to this list that you did not know where the item regarding Hagerstown came from. If you have discovered evidence that your George lived in or near Hagerstown, future queries and this list's readers would benefit by your sharing what that evidence is. Some Maryland records concerning the Revolutionary War have been published in the volumes of the Archives of Maryland, and have been scanned and posted to the MD Archives' internet site here: _http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html_ (http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html) Volumes 12 and 18 have these records. If you click on the link to a particular volume you can search it by surname. If you have not already checked the Penna. State Archives' military records card file index for the Revolutionary War, the gateway to it is here: _http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/_ (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/) --click on the link at bottom of the page, then on the new page scroll down for the Revolutionary War link. The card file is arranged alphabetically and is pretty easy to navigate. Many items are from records that either no longer exist or are closed to public access, but a lot are extracted from the ~published~ volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives. In the latter case, there will be a citation, at lower right of the card, to Volume and Series of these published volumes, which can be found free at the Internet Archives as well as on the paid-subscription sites ancestry.com and fold3.com. None of these service or militia lists will give genealogical information, but they do often indicate places of residence. Even if they only add to your list of possible ancestors of your George, they will give you leads about where to look for possible estate and land records that might indicate who their living children were. Good hunting, Judy .