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/lNB.2ACI/3975 Message Board Post: We seek help on tracking ownership of lead mines in Missouri. Anyone know how to do this? Our group sirnames: STRIPLING and SUMPTER, CARNEY, DENNIS, HARGIS, COOPER, STEVENSON, STEPHENSON, GRIMES, sirname JAMES & TURNER, and others,are all MO people before and after the civil war. Does anyone know how to track mental hospital committment records? ie...a lead mine might be the cause? Thanks, Judy Grimes, Yorba Linda, CA.