Linda, Have you tried looking in Alabama via US GenWeb (I've had some REALLY great luck finding researchers that will look up stuff--including newspaper articles, cemeteries etc!). If you aren't aware of this site here is the address: "http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinkstable.html" Make sure you bookmark it, you'll probably use it often. The site breaks down into states and then counties--each run by individuals so you'll get different amounts of information in each county. Once county in MN I found marriage and cemetary records for family I had been spending months of inquiries elsewhere with no results! Good luck, Lauri my web page: "http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3029/" [email protected] wrote: > > I thought I would try this again: > Hopefully you might have an answer for me. My Gggrandmother was Sarah Francis > Lillie Mae Ratleft (spelling changes). I do not have a birth date. She > married George Allen Edwards b. 1862 in New Market, Madison Co. Alabama. My > ggrandfather Lummie Lee Edwards was born 1891 in Elkmont Alabama. > > Fannie (as she was called) went by the name of Reed. Her father unknown > Ratliff died when she was young. Her mother remarried to unknown Reed. > > Do you have any Ratliffs in Alabama? > Have you noticed any naming trends similar to my gggrandmother? > Thanks for taking time to read this. > > Linda Tidwell > > ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== > Your donations to RootsWeb makes RATLIFF-L possible. > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html