Try Delta COunty... they have a lot of records on line....you'll be able to find them with your search engine... Try also in Marquette COunty. The time that you are asking about was a big MINING time in Iron RIver, which then was in Marquette County, then Iron Cty. And you know that Powers has the rr too. All of these places are very easily accessible by CNWrr so you might just be looking a little to narrow.... Even tho State said they had nothing, check more local. When in Delta records, check regarding any CNWrr records and check the two big cem in Escanaba Lakeview - generally non-Catholic and St Joe/Holy Cross Catholic.... good luck... write to the list if you need more ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 5:15 PM To: MIMENOMI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Hoyts The last year I found my grt grt grt grandfather, Harvey Hoyt, was in 1881 when he married for the 3rd time to Catharine Hill in Powers, Menominee co. MI. I've lost track of him after that. Does anyone have access to the 1885 MI state census and would they mind looking for him if it's not too much trouble? I have been trying to find his date and place of death FOREVER! Wrote to the state of Michigan and they said they didn't have a death record. I think I also wrote to Menominee county and they said the same. If I could just find him in 1885 I'd at least know he was still living. He's been very elusive! Thanks for any help, Claudia Schuman ==== MIMENOMI Mailing List ==== Had ancestors in Michigan? Check Michigan GenWeb page! http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com