Some people are asking where the information that I am posting comes from. To save time this will explain it to one and all. Beth I live in southern California. In the 80's I was looking for documentation for my husband's ancestors in Howard, Boone, and Randoph Counties with little luck. I bought about 100 rolls of microfilm from the MO State Archives, mostly land records but some vital records and probate records for several MO counties in central and east central MO. I started reading through the land deed books page by page and abstracting the family relationships that I found from the beginnings of each county through about the time of the 1850 census or a bit later. As you probably know land deeds indexes do not contain all the names found in land deeds. I entered this information into a spread sheet database on my computer. Not all counties are done yet. Worked on it for 8 years pretty solid but now the pace is much much slower. This is where the land research you see comes from.