This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeMoss Trout Thomas Shannon McCulloch Owens Hickman Hixson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/899.1 Message Board Post: My mother was born and raised in Paradise, Missouri, (and my father had a farm in Mecca, which is a few miles north of Paradise). I have posted my genealogy efforts on WorldConnect, Rootsweb, which you can find at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=richard_a_thomas There are a few Wades (about 50 I think) in it. Everyone in the genealogy I've posted is in one single tree. That is, each individual is an ancestor or descendant of at least one other individual in the database or is married to an individual in the database, and one can trace a link through marriages, parents, and children from any one person to every other person. I think there are about 7,000 individuals in the database. Most of the people lived in the area where I grew up, northwest Clay County, southwest Clinton County, or middle to northeastern Platte County. The nearby towns are Ridgley, Trimble, Mecca, Paradise, Smithville, Grayson, Edgerton, Linkville, and Ferrelview. Further away are Plattsburg, Kearney, and Platte City. So if you are looking for people who lived in those areas, you may find them included among those I've put into the database. (People in this area tended to marry people nearby.) Richard Thomas (formerly of Smithville, MO)