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/JhB.2ACE/1170 Message Board Post: I read your inquiry, and I feel for you. Research is hard on its own, let alone trying to research like you are. I can't even imagine. I have a suggestion that might give you another way to look. If you can't go to the court house in Cass County, you might find somone there to look for records on the owner. Sometimes when someone died they listed on their wills, who got who. I've never looked, but it is possible they have papers on file.