Hi Penny, My "Humble" line lived in Vernon, MO at one point. Do you have any info from the early 1900's? I live in Tampa, FL and the first place I went to was the LDS, but I didn't have much success. One night when I went, another researcher told me to try the library downtown. I have found alot of info, but they don't have a soundex for MO at all. I thought they told me that a soundex wasn't created for this state. But, you have used one for MO? Do you have a list that shows the years the soundex is available for MO? I need to find the late 1800's to early 1900's. I found my Humbles on the 1910 census for OK, but want to track before that time. I found the father and son on this census and the information conflicts. According to the son's census, (Lon C. Humble) his father (John D. Humble) was from Iowa and his mother (Rachel Ann Wilson) was from Missouri. But when I look up John Humble his census shows that he was from Illinois and so was his wife. (Oh, how confusing! My instinct says go with John's census, but what if the census taker put the wrong info) Any help is appreciated! Lori ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Gardner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [OK-CEM] Re:Soundex a must > Stephanie, the Soundex will be on a microfilm. Generally, it takes about 2-3 > weeks to come from Salt Lake. The History center has microfilm readers and > you can examine them for 3 weeks. I am not a Mormon, but I have found all > the volunteers there so very helpful! > Some of the files may be a little faded, > but generally you can read them. If you know that your folks came from MO, > pick a census that you are pretty sure they are in. I always start with the > most recent that I know of. (1920 is the latest you can order) > We knew ours were in MO in 1880, so I got the Soundex for that year. On > that, we found they were in Vernon county. Next, I checked Vernon county > 1860 and 1850, and found them on those. Knowing they were mostly around > Vernon County, made it easier searching cemetery, and probate records. A > lot of records in MO were destroyed during the War, but it's amazing how > many survived. I live in CA, so I can't research in MO., but the History > center also has a lot of probate records. > I wish you luck. It's hard work, but so exciting when you find something! > Penny > > > > ==== OK-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > If your Ancestors migrated to or through Oklahoma - register them on the Oklahoma > Migration Page http://oklahomamigration.homestead.com/OMIndex.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >