Sandra, I have used about every spelling I could think of for Puffenbarger. My husband has a great grandmother who was adopted and in her marriage application in the 1890s said her parents were Benjamin Oates and Elizabeth Puffenbarger and she was born in Lewis Co., WV. That is a lost cause for searching as their adoption records are closed forever and even though there were a lot of Puffenbargers in Pendleton Co., VA and they have their own web page they know nothing of Sarah Elizabeth Puffenbarger. I think she might have been born on the other side of the blanket as one man told me once about himself. She was adopted in WV and moved to western Kansas. Her children knew very little about their mother's past. Thanks for answering. Jerilyn ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.