I have found that when I cannot find anything on people in Saratoga or any place in the Northeast, I automatically start giving thought to looking somewhere West. Many of the people who left here and went to Michigan, for instance, seem to have started with one or a couple of families (brothers, brothers-in-law, cousins, neighbors) and went first. After getting a house up, land cleared, settled and knowing what was what, encouraged the others back East to come out too. The mass of families who dwindled here and end up there were basically between 1827 to 1842. When one of the older generation who remained here died, you will often find the remaining person went to live with one of their families out west and when they died, they were buried out there. This was true of the single ladies, disabled and those listed in census as idots, etc. These may be the other unknown adults in the household in the census of 1840 and earlier. They did not have nursing homes as we do now. By the way, if you have early Michigan people, there is a wonderful set of books on the Michigan Pioneers. I cannot find the exact title but there is a set at the Onondaga County Library in Syracuse, NY and a set at the Burton Collection at the Detroit Public Library. I have the email address and website for a gal in Detroit area who will look things up for a fee. I have email for people in Syracuse area who do research also. These Pioneer books are just unbelieveable. The pioneers wrote them, not a historian who came along years later. The pioneers wanted to be sure that everyone knew their stories and lineage. They had annual meetings until they died out and each annual meeting had a report of who died, married and was born to them in the past year. They each wrote their lineage, family stories, affiliations, cousins, neighbors, and who of their family (in-laws, cousins, etc.) were still back East, where their ancestors came from, etc. Love those books!! So when you lose track of your people, check to see the dates the states out West started seeing pioneers and check their early histories to see if your surnames appear there. Takes a little time but many of the books like History of Saratoga County have an awful lot to offer. That is the beauty of the GenWebPages and being able to check each county in each state. Most have reference to local libraries, historical and genealogy societies. The GenWebPages are almost all volunteer efforts and anything you know about your ancestors should be placed in their "surname" and "queries" so others may find you but also your ancestors name is going to be placed where it should be and become a part of their history. This may be the only record anyone has there. Are your Saratoga ancestors all on the Saratoga GenWebPage? If anyone finds any mention of Saratoga families moving to an area, please let me know. There are some historical or genealogical societies in other states that have quite a bit of information about Saratoga people who were their pioneers and I have not been able to find them. There are a couple in Wisconsin but the information I had was not correct. We need those connections. God Bless Ruth Ann [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.