Dear Listers, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to any good sources to look for some missing ancestors. I have a family that migrated from Wayne County IL to New Madrid sometime around 1875. Most of them show up in the 1880 census but several of the children are missing and I'm wondering if they perhaps died or something else. I'm looking for an Marion WILSON born Illinois in 1867. I am told he often went by the name of "Fudge" so I suspect that he lived but cannot find any record of him. His parents died en route and so the children I do find were living with other families as hired help. I'm also looking for his brother Albert WILSON born IL 1863. Another Wilson child, Marvilla, married Nathaniel Richard Cole in Illinois and her family arrived in tact in New Madrid as I find them in the 1880 census. However, I cannot find where two of her children went: Sheridan COLE (b. 1872 IL) and Sherman COLE (b. 1875 KY). Did they marry in New Madrid or go off somewhere else. I cannot find them in any census after 1880. Thanks in advance for any help or direction. Happy holidays! Rick Wilson New York, NY