Cassandra, There were a lot of families with the Shreckengost name in Armstrong County throughout the 1800's. There are a variety of spellings, even within the same families. The ones I know of were from around Putneyville, since I am researching the Putney family. There are some sources for looking up ancestors of this family, and some of them list descendants. They might be your best bet if you are trying to get everybody. Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, under the editorial supervision of John W. Jordan, LL. D., Volume II (I don't know about Volume 1--I didn't personally find any information there, if indeed I even looked at it), New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913 Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, Embracing a History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, in Two Volumes, Illustrated, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914 (this one most definitely has Shreckengosts in it, and was published in 1914, so it may actually have YOUR family names from the late 1890's. You probably have to look at each listing of the surname from the index, because children were not necessarily indexed. In my case, the children were usually listed in the first or second paragraph, or the very last.) History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Robert Walter Smith, Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883 All three are in a set called the "Cox Collection," availabe on microfilm at the LDS Family History Centers. You may have to order it, though. And, not to discourage you, or anything, this was a quote from someone on this list not too long ago: >In the past few days people have been asking about Schreckengost >familiies in the Armstrong Co area. I was looking through the >1870 Armstrong country census films (1300 and 1301) yesterday >trying to find some of my own family and quit counting at 30 >heads of housholds. I would venture to say there are well over >50 Schreckengost families in that census area in 1870. Good luck! And, by the way, if you run across any interesting Putney info, outside of these books, I would love to hear about it! Patti Garcia