This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HKB.2ACI/1587.1 Message Board Post: Your query into slaves may be hard to follow through...prior to the Civil War they were usually not listed with last names.....ie. census of 1850 AK. and in several wills I have they were listed by first name only,,,,,at that time they were consitered property...If you know the persons owner look for his will or for the censes around that date Alot of counties listed them as a group by fird st names .........I have one news clipping refering to the slaves of Daniel Burks(1811) as ......".60 head of slaves"