To all that sent encouraging responses, I wanted to thank you, I have tried to reply to everyone, but it is now becoming to over whelming to answer everybody back. I can understand how these list administrators that have several counties to do, feel. I have several leads and on my other lines and many many awesome folks who have offered to help. I have been researching for just a little under a year now, and have found many people and information. I have made many contacts and feel that I can help others with what I have. I have researched all that I can on my Heckman family until I receive proof from St. Augustine's church in Minster, Ohio as to who my Clemens's parents are, I am stuck. Right now he is an only child, and that is hard to believe. Through marriage, baptismal, probate and land contracts, and cemetery records WE KNOW HE EXISTS!! Ha ha To all of those people that receive a couple of hundred emails a week, I understand, I am in the same boat. It was a one time shot and proved in my mind successful. Happy Hunting Thanks, Lorrie Heckman Smith [email protected] May God be between thee and harm, in all the empty places you must walk. Researching Heckman(n),Smith,Barga,Mertz,Dotson, Ratterman,Brussell,Keesee Thanks, Lorrie Heckman Smith [email protected] May God be between thee and harm, in all the empty places you must walk. Researching Heckman(n),Smith,Barga,Mertz,Dotson, Ratterman,Brussell,Keesee