In a message dated 20-May-05 6:20:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, hamilton50@adelphia.net writes: I need some advise . My gr-gr-grand father SIMEON MOORE HAMILTON born about 1836 - 38 in Mercer Co. I've tracked from 1860 census until his death in 1920's in Mercer Co. But, I could not can not find him in the 1850 census for any county in PA. All records of him state he was born in PA. By chance I ran just his first name on Ancestry.com for PA. and in the 1850 Delaware, Mercer Co., PA. census I found a SIMEON MOORE born 1836 in PA. Any idea's as to how I could found out if his parents died and he was adopted by a local HAMILTON family. On All of SIMEON's records he always uses MOORE as his middle name. Or if anyone on this list is researching the MOORE family from Mercer Co.could you contact me. Norm Hamilton Norm, Simeon Hamilton Moore was the son of James Moore. Listed in the 1860 Census, Hamburg PO, Delaware Township, Mercer County, PA. He was 24 at the time. He was also the brother of my, Charlotte Moore, who married David Porter. They were listed in the same household with James Moore. Still working on this family. Janice Eby Barbeau of Washington State