I have been looking for 50 years and have tried that also. What I would like is someone to check the state archives for records of and in Lansingburgh or even Troy. I found many records of Goewey's in Essex County NY. I found them in the 1830 census there. I have suppected they were the group of Wayne county. Now I have proof of it in a much later News paper in Essex. Do you know of anyone that is reliable that can check the Library in the Archives? I have done the census on line done the local historians people on line Local Genealogy societies. If you can think of anything else that is in New York. I have also checked the Civil War records and found two of the sons. The one I just found will tell me where he was born and married and where he was buried. Elizabeth Goewey Norton death cert, only know sister has the wrong people as her parents. They were her in laws. One child Martha and she messed up. And ideas ? I am sure ready for it. Every time I do a google search I only fine my Quires that I have left in each state on line. I have a sub to Ancestry and I think I have found the Crossman"s of Vermont decend from Jacob Crossman and Linda Claflin. I had a book with them in it and the birth of the full family. They came from Mass but not taughton that was back one generation from Jacob. I took all of the 1830 census and checked each man listed to see if he had any daughters that might have been born in the slot for a person that would have been born in 1812. I found one that fits real good into the family. I also checked to see if that family would check in to the birth of her first child. I found the three sons and several daughters. I found one of them becasue a grandson named Hall was at the place of the grandparents in 1850. I was down to two girls two to go I found in the 1880 the single sister of living with her brother. That left the one who could have been mine. as all the other girls were much younger. The one missing would have been born in between two of the boys. mmm Still not any proof, I have nothing in the State index on her birth but only some of the family. I suppect another town in another township. The early ones moved around a lot. So goes that battle, the last of my dead ends. I even found my first cousins after 60 years between my father and I. I gave up and left notes all over for Chicago. Bingo one of them found it. Later down the line. Fred