This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DkB.2ACI/866.1 Message Board Post: Suggestion: Ysleta, Texas is in El Paso County, not Bexar Co. (San Antonio). Furthermore, according to the Family History Library Catalog (Place search), there are a good many films of church records of Catholic churches in Ysleta. If you are near an LDS family history center, you can order films through that FHC--for a small fee--for a limited time. If your people were Catholic, the chances are fairly good that one or two persons will show up in the records of those churches--two are listed. Here's how you can conduct the search yourself on your home computer: Go to www.familysearch.org Go to the link for the FHL catalog, which is on the lower right side--as is a link to a LONG list of Family History centers around the world. When you access the catalog, then do a Place search. I typed in Ysleta, which I recall on a long-ago trip to El Paso, was a very small village. I then typed in Texas, and I believe there were only one or two topics--church records being one of those. Oh, yes, there was another--Emigration and immigration, which may be border crossing lists. As stated, you can read this microfilms at your local FH Center, after you pay a small fee and order them from Salt Lake City. If you need more information, e-mail me back. By the way, you mentioned the date 1875. The 1880 US census is on the same website given above. Look for the image of the older couple. Beneath that image will be the words *vast collections* [use your find toolbar, if you are confused and type in *vast*]. A long list of choices will appear. Choose the word Census. Then choose the 1880 US census. Type in some search terms--but don't give the computer too much information--it gets confused. I hope you can find your family on the 1880 census, which is free on the LDS website. However, if you say you want to see the image, there may be some prompts to get you to subscribe to Ancestry.com You may not want to do that. You can do this latter search from your home computer. Check the words on the upper right which say *Household* Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace