In a message dated 2/15/2003 4:12:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, king133@juno.com writes: > QUESTION: > My next step is to try looking in obituaries and probate records to see > if I can find any clues there. What do you think? Is that a > good/logical approach? > > Thanks for your help, > Charlie King > gg grandson of Joseph Loomer Thompson > born 1821 someplace in CT > > Hi Charlie, That sound perfectly logical to me. I have a few of those orphaned ancestors of my own who just seem to have dropped out of the sky. In some cases probate records, where they existed, helped me track some of them. With less common names I have found help in the census records but Thompson is fairly common compared to Jackways :) Good luck, Donna