I got about 5 replies within a couple of hours to my lookup request for Joseph GIRTON. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! Each of you shed a little different perspective on what you found giving me really good perspective from all sides. I now need to find out childrens names for those 2 Josephs...one who was 80 years old and one who was 40-50 year old---probably father and son in 2 households. Anyway, if anyone has any good ideas how I (in Kansas) can start looking for names of children for these two Josephs who were in Monmouth Co in 1840, I would appreciate it. It is possible that the younger one could have been father to my Joseph who was 27 in that year. I have a National Archives location near me, but don't really see how that can help. Ideas? Thanks again! This seems to be a helpful and active list. Valerie