Good Morning Marie and All, Marie thank you for the links to your homepage and also for the lookups you have done on the surnames: Bass and Mallory. Sincerely, Ramona ------Original Message------ On Sun Sep 1 10:47:09 2002 rmbeck@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi Ramona and everyone No everything on Ancestry.com doesn't require that you be subscribed. I had used their articles/columns maps and census extraction forms before I ever subscribed to the Census Images. However to access the Slave Schedules at Ancestry you must be a subscriber to their Census Images online as I noted in my post. I was answering the question asked by another Southern Plantation subscriber on the list about how to get to the slave schedules. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. The article that I mentioned, UNRAVELLING THE 1850 & 1860 SLAVE SCHEDULES, is not at Ancestry and may be of use to anyone who is researching the slave schedules. I am not researching any slave names so far. My gr gr gr gr grandfather Peter Luna, wholived in Marshall Co. TN until his death in 1851 owned some slaves. I have a copy of his will but it doesn't mention them by name in the will. It might in court documents following his death. I've not had the opportunity to check. I have transcribed the 1850 & 1860 Slave Schedules of Van Buren Co. TN and have them online at the urls below (You will probably need to copy and paste into browser as they are long urls) 1850 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/census/TN/vanburen/slave1850.html 1860 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/census/TN/vanburen/slave1860.html Thanks, MarieB