Oh my gosh! You folks are incredible!  I think that you found my missing ancestors.  I do think that the Margaret listed ijn the sick hospital/poor house.  I don't know anything about a Matilda, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.  Margaret's age is close, so I think that you may have found her, Debra. And the Forest Gill (or Hill) listed could well be my g-grandfather.  Again, the age is off by two years, but the census often gets such things a little off. Yes, I would definitely like to have an image of that page, Deb. Wow, I sure didn't know that Forest was listed as a step-son of William.  I know that he was, but I had always heard that Forest said that William was his father.  William came to New York from England in 1861 and joined the Union army.  He was wounded at Pickett's/Pettigrew's charge.  After recovering, he joined the 17th PA Calvary and fought until the end of the war. Then, he came back to Adams County and married Margaret. Forest was born in 1856, so he couldn't be William's son. I copied your post, too, Joan, as it will remind me to look further outside the box.  I had been searching in Franklin County and didn't think of searching through York, too, not to mention looking for other family names with whom an ancestor might be listed.. Thanks so much for everyone's help. You people are super! Sue Message: 2 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:17:15 -0400 From: "D. Kohler" <dkohlerx2@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] PAADAMS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 121 To: paadams@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <D39337CE-4FF2-47EB-AD95-65C8CF2233A2@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset=US-ASCII;    delsp=yes;    format=flowed Hi, Sue: Is this your Margaret Slonaker? Series: M653  Roll: 1057  Page: 40 1860 - Sick Hospital/Poor House, Gettysburg P.O., Cumberland Twp.,  Adams Co., PA - 6/16/1860 Slonaker, Margaret - 30 - f - PA - pauper ---  Matilda - 25 - f - PA - pauper Good luck with your search! Debra On Sep 12, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Susan Alexander wrote: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:28:04 -0400 From: Deb Stanish <dbrhstan@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] PAADAMS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 121 To: paadams@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4AABDA24.6090905@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed In 1860 in Gettysburg I find Margaret Slonaker listed, age 30. Above her is a Samuel Hill, age 76. There is also a Matilda Slonaker, age 25, and a Forrest E Gill (or possibly Hill), age 3. On the edge of the census it says "Sick Hospital Adams County Poor House". Do you think these are yours? In 1880, Forrest Thompson is listed as the step-son to William Thompson, so while he might have assumed his step-father's last name, in 1860 he probably was still using his birth father's last name. Let me know if you'd like me to send you the image. Deb Stanish ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:36:41 -0400 From: "D. Kohler" <dkohlerx2@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] PAADAMS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 121 To: paadams@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <45679996-0681-43C6-956A-7F340FD52807@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset=US-ASCII;    delsp=yes;    format=flowed Sue: Is this the same family in 1880? Series: T9  Roll: 1085  Page: 130 1880 - Straban Twp., Adams Co., PA - 6/5/1880 Thompson, William - w - m - 50 - head - married - day laborer -  cannot write - England/Eng./Eng. ---  Margret L. - w - f - 52 - wife - married - keeping house -  cannot write - PA/PA/PA ---  Harry - w - m - 13 - son - single - at home - PA/Eng./PA -  attended school within year ---  Mary - w - f - 10 - dau. - single - at home - PA/Eng./PA -  attended school within year ---  Robert - w - m - 7 - son - single - at home - PA/Eng./PA ---  Forrest - w - m - 24 - step-son - single - at home -  PA/PA/PA Little, Matilda - w - f - 42 - servant - single - servant -  PA/PA/PA Debra ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:51:15 -0400 From: "D. Kohler" <dkohlerx2@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] PAADAMS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 121 To: paadams@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2E2F929A-66F7-42DD-A2D9-A208EF9BB990@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Good catch!  These 4 children are noted immediately after Margaret &  Matilda Slonaker in the 1860 census material: Myers, George W. - 3 - m - PA - pauper Degraft, George H. - 9 mos. - m - PA - pauper Gill, Forrest E. - 3 - m - PA - pauper Degraft, George A. - 1 - f - PA - pauper Debra ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:54:54 EDT From: JYoung6180@aol.com Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] PAADAMS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 121 To: paadams@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c8d.4ff225e6.37dd568e@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sue- I don't believe anything is MISSING -- it sometimes takes creativity to  find a family when you are trying to follow through from one census to another.  In one case I found my York County family indexed under the wrong surname because the censustaker had put ditto marks instead of the surname and there was  a servant girl (with a different surname) separating the parents from the  children I'd been searching on--so they were indexed (due to enumerator error)  under the wrong name. In the Adams County 1860 census I couldn't find my great-grandfather as a  teenager--he wasn't with his parents. I searched and searched for every Henry  MYERS in the listings to try to find the right Henry. I finally studied  collateral family and found him living with his mother's sister and her husband  as an apprentice wagonmaster. However, finding them was still difficult because  the HANK family was misindexed as HAWK--an easy error for the transcriber to  have made when he didn't know these families. These types of misindexing often make it difficult to find the people  you are looking for as it did for me. Joan