This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4602.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Try the St. Louis PUblic Library. Ask for a soundex search which will help if the censuses were mistranscribed. If they can find him, ask for a copy of the census also. See item # 5 Also, the library has city directories. Send separate requests for census/soundex info and for the city directory. See item 6 http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/geneinfo.htm See item #13 to email your requests.