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/BGB.2ACI/438.3 Message Board Post: Do you have a copy of the original land patent for Ebenezer? If not got to the BLM web site below - http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ He bought 40 acres on 9/10/1869. But the family does not appear in the 1870 census. 1850 census shows Elmer 7/12 denoted as F - for female. Where is Elmer's mother in 1850? Who is the father?