This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STANLEY STANDLEY SPAN SPAIN SPANN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yIB.2ACE/950 Message Board Post: I'm searching for descendants of the following family, listed on the 1850 Carroll Co. Census, Southern District, and believed to live around Black Hawk: James Stanley, Jr 31 - M - MS Margaret 30 - F - KY James T. 9 - M - MS John 7 - M - MS Leona 3 - F - MS Richard 1 - M - MS Harry Smith 17 - M - MS Samuel Stanley 13 - M - MS Adjacent to them on the census is another Stanley family (maybe James' father?) James Stanley 58 - M - TN(?) ($20,000) Ephraim 20 - M - MS Jane 18 - F - MS Abraham 15 - M - MS Benjamin 13 - M - MS Washington 11 - M - MS Amanda 9 - F - MS Cornelia 7 - F - MS Adeliza Smith 16 - F - MS I'm thinking that the Leona Stanley listed above eventually married James SPAN / SPAIN / SPANN from the family listed on the next page of that census: Frances Spann 52 - F - SC James 18 - M - SC David 16 - M - SC Harry (?) 14 - M - SC Septimus 11 - M - SC Octavius 9 - M - SC These census pages are extremely hard to read on Ancestry, so I'm not certain of all the names. A couple of pages later there is the following Standley reference: Francis Eubank 50 - M - VA Frances 40 - F - TN Franklin 12 - M - MS Matthew 10 - M - MS Mary J. 8 - F - MS Morgiana 6/12 - F - MS SARAH STANDLEY 28 - F - TN - blind Can anyone help me with these Standley and Spann families? MH