Thank you, Carolyn, so much! All your work on transcribing and then alphabetizing is stellar! This record, esp. is welcome: CHIPLY, Wardie Benson; male; 4th; white; b 11 Dec 1883, Boonsboro; father George CHIPLY, wagoner, 33, b Howard Co; mother Octavia CHIPLY nee SHELTON, 33, b Shakray, GA, resided Boonsboro; J T WOOD, Boonsboro. I haven't been able previously to know Octavia's maiden name. Now I just have to figure out who the aged Augustus Davis might be who was living with them in the 1870 Census (just after their marriage). I had pegged him for a possible father-in-law. <wry grin> Rowan