This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/382.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sally, If you tell me just the proven facts you have on your guy, maybe I can tell somewhere to look for more material. I assume you have read all the census (state and Federal)he was on. Collected his death records, obiturary, marriage records, naturalization records, wills, probates, ect. If your man was born outside the US, his children's birth records might tell where he was born. Or his land records. Several of my guys that bought land in another state, the first papers told where he came from.