This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5cB.2ACI/482.1.1.2.1.2 Message Board Post: You mentioned checking only county information. I found this on Ancestry.com if you do not already have it. Thomas was born in New York and so was Cynthia. Name: THOMAS W. GATES State: OR County: Yamhill County Township: Apportionment Census Year: 1849 Database: OR 1841-1849 Census Index Name: T. W. GATES State: OR County: Multnomah County Township: Multnomah Precinct Year: 1860 Record Type: Federal Population Schedule Page: 469 Database: OR 1860 Federal Census Index 1860 Census T W Gates Sublimity, Multnomah, OR 39 1820 New York Male Cynthia Gates Sublimity, Multnomah, OR 29 1830 New York Female Wm Gates Sublimity, Multnomah, OR 8 1851 Oregon Male Laura Gates Sublimity, Multnomah, OR 6 1853 Oregon Female 1850 Census: Name: T W Gates Age: 30 Estimated birth year: abt 1820 Birth place: New York Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Milwaukie, Clackamas, Oregon Territory Page: 16 Roll: M432_742