I�ve been benefitting from the PALEBANO chatter for a month or so. Now I�ll enter the fray. The surname subject is OWEN, my great-great grandparents. This is what I know/suspicion (dates are from good family-bible sources), and I�ll take all the help/surmise I can get!! I know nothing firm of these folk in the area. I know it was all Lancaster Co., but you all know why I�m asking here!! Evan OWEN, born 24 Dec 1790 in PA wed about 1827 to Margaret E. ____, born 15 Sep 1802 in PA Their children affected by a PA search: Franklin J., born 23/24 Mar 1828, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster Co. Elizabeth Katherine, born 31 Aug 1830, prob. in Lancaster Co. William, born 1832 in PA Levi, born 1834 in PA Margaret E., born 1837 in PA John F. (?Franklin?), born 1840 in PA or OH Obediah, born 7 Mar 1843 in Ohio. So my surmise is that they came to Ohio between 1840 and 1843. Franklin J., though he wed my great-grandmother in Ohio (Elizabeth Treon), had probably a prior wife named Fanny (?DOWN?) in PA and a child by her (Fianna). They were in the 1850 Census, and she in the 1860 Census, in Lancaster City. We know of the divorce, and that�s not an issue here, though any descendants of that first marriage are welcome to contact me!! I'm Dave Ross, and I live in Denver, CO