Darla, Offhand, since that is the only GEIST in the 1870 census age 17 with a name like Frank, I think you have your man. However, how do you know he is the son of George and Barbara, since he is a carpenter apprentice living with the Wonderling family. At 09:00 AM 2/8/04, you wrote: >From: "John Kelly" <DJKELLY1@peoplepc.com> >To: PAARMSTR-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <000e01c3edf8$80d941e0$2a01fea9@computer> >Subject: Re: [PAARMSTR-L] GEIST/BUFFINGTON >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Thank you Fred, >I did find the family in the census, just trying to find out if anyone knows >Frank's parents. I have a Franklin/Frank Geist that was the son of George >and Barbara (Kessler) Geist in Jefferson Co. Haven't found anything on him >til I came across the census, if it's the same Frank. >I appreciate you help. >Darla