Ruth Price Waldbauer <[email protected]> now has a GenConnect board to post information from her book - Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios (c) 1907 http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Transcriptions/CivilWar/1907MarcusFWrightBios Enjoy, Marti Sue Badeaux wrote: > > As usual I was not clear in my question. I am trying to find the PARENTS > of Samuel L. Smith. I have the documentation of Samuel from 1840 on.I do > not know what county to check and I am dealing with the census records > of 1790 to 1830. All I have are the names SMITH, LANDMAN, SUMMERFIELD > AND WHITE. > ORIGINAL QUESTION: > How would I go about finding the family of a SMITH born about 1806 in > PA? Just posted a query on the Unknown County GenWeb page. I do have > some possible clues in the names of his children and grandchildren, etc. > His name was Samuel L. Smith and he named children, Henry Landman Smith, > Samuel Summerfield Smith, James White Smith and Nancy White Smith. > Grandchildren and grgrandchildren were named Henry Landman and James > White so these names seem to be important. At the library yesterday > copied the pages from the census index books for Landman, Summerfield, > Smith and White with the idea that I may find a common county. -- Please Keep Messages Posted To OKGEN-L As "Genealogy Related Chat". Marti ____________________________________________ mailto:[email protected] Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator & Creek, LeFlore, Oklahoma Co. Coordinator http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878/ R U an Angel Proud RootsWeb Donor+ "Dedicated to user supported access to genealogical records on the internet"