Linda's explanations are so valuable and motivating and this list very engaged! I know you will have some thoughts about where to go next to find the ancestral trail. Here is a family that I am pursuing. No brick walls - yet. Just not enough time to research. Any suggestions are appreciated. James Reed, b. 1800 in Pennsylvania, married Margaret Fulton, b. c. 1805 in Ireland, before 1825. James parents birthplaces were Ireland. Margaret's maiden name was found on the 1925 Iowa census reported by her daughter Hannah Reed Brock. They probably married in PA before 1825, which was the birth of their first child, Joseph. They immigrated to Ohio, where daughter Mary Elizabeth was b. in December 1832 and another daughter Hannah was born c. 1842. Next the James Reed family moved to Iowa where they appear on censuses beginning in 1850 and a land grant in 1849. James dies in June 1860 in Marshall Co., Iowa after being struck by lightening. Any suggestions about how to take the next step and find records for James Reed and Margaret Fulton in PA -- when the county is not known? TIA, Wendy