In a message dated 1/23/2005 7:25:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, danlee@scrtc.com writes: I've read the Marshall County 1850 page by page a couple of times. There are eight families who were in the same location on the 1840 census My Lacys and McNeills go missing regularly! I think they stayed put and the counties changed. I do know the census wasn't meant to be kept this long and lots were kept in mouldy basements [see the Navarro Co TX ones, just awful!] and some may be missing forever. Meantime have you tried to find them in the Slave Census? it can be useful if your ancestors owned even one slave. <<Mary lists her birthplace as MS. She appears to be the oldest daughter, whom some researchers have listed as "Ida", >> She could have been Ida Mary or reversed <G> I have tons like this in MS the evil women left home and started using the other name, I doubled the number of girls <G> until I caught one <G> I forgot to put Mississippi in the search, so these are all exact Tabors in the 1850 SC Elijah Tabor Not Stated, Marion, Arkansas Zach Tabor Division 20, Crawford, Georgia Isaac Tabor District 32, Forsyth, Georgia James Tabor Division 2, Fleming, Kentucky William G Tabor Division 2, Fleming, Kentucky Susan Tabor Summer Grove, Caddo, Louisiana Margaret Tabor Not Stated, East Feliciana, Louisiana David T Tabor Natchitoches, Natchitoches, Louisiana James Tabor Eastern District, St Helena, Louisiana Eligha Tabor Not Stated, Union, Louisiana John H Tabor Not Stated, West Baton Rouge, Louisiana A Tabor Not Stated, Lafayette, Mississippi E H Tabor Lindsey, Benton, Missouri William Tabor Polk, Rutherford, North Carolina Jacob Tabor District 41, Montgomery, Virginia Okay, John in 1860 is Taber, Nancy D Taber Age in 1860: 8 Birthplace: Mississippi Home in 1860: Township 3 Range 3, Marshall, Mississippi Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: View image Post Office: Holly Springs Roll: M653_587 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: John H Taber Household How well have you searched the Marshall site? I found hints of my McNeills there in some church memberships etc. Eliz <<