Rosemary, how wonderful of you to do this for me ! I am so grateful to you ! I will follow up on all your suggestions. Opal ----- Original Message ----- From: <RTooey@aol.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:05 AM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] VA for vets > Dear Opal, I searched ancestry.com for Anthony Finch and found him on two > census records 1850 and 1860. Couldn't read the imagine but am copying the > 1850 census: > FINCH, ANTHONY > State: VA Year: 1850 > County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > Township: No Township Listed Page: 091 > Database: VA 1850 Federal Census Index > FINCH, ANTHONY > State: VA Year: 1860 > County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > Township: Rocky Mount P.O. Page: 277 > Database: VA 1860 Federal Census Index > > Found a record of his marriage to Elizabeth F. Jenkins, Aug 1, 1842, sur > Henry Jenkins in the Franklin ,Co. marriages 1786-1890 page 87 . > You should write to the VA Archives and request a copy of his war record > which should give his date of birth, records of his service, etc. Couldn't > find a record of a penion paid to his widow,, but if a pension was requested > there should be a record of it in the Virginia Ac=rchives. > > Also found an Anthony Finch listed in 1827,8,9,&30 in the Boston Directories > but no other information. I am not sure if this your ancestor but it came up > in the search at Ancestry.com. You might want to do some research in > Franklin Co. at Rocky Mount for occupation, no.of children in the household , > etc. You have the page number on the census so should be able to get a copy > of the full census page and then you could check out newspapers or churches > that he might have attended. > > Hope this helps a little > > Rosemary. > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > To post your SURNAMES ON MESSAGE BOARDS: > http://boards.ancestry.com/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >