In a message dated 3/12/01 11:47:47 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I may have been mistaken about an Ellis Bailey book being at the Clayton Genealogy Library. It has been quite a while ago and I am going on an "old" memory. I called them today and they checked the computer list - they found "A History of Hill County, Texas 1853-1980" but could not identify the author as Mr. Bailey. So the book may or may not be there. >> I looked up the online catalog of the Houston Library. Here is their website: http://catalog.houstonlibrary.org/search~b1a1o1c1i1 Here is the website for the Clayton library : http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton The site listed the above book as: A History of Hill County, Texas, 1853-1980 / by members, Hill County Historical Commission, residents of communities ; editorial staff, Ruth B. Reed, Mrs. Walton Smith ; Celeste Varnell Dodd, chairman. It was published in 1980. The Dallas library does have this book. The Dallas library's catalog can be found here: http://catalog.dallaslibrary.org sign on as a guest and you can search for anything you want! I have had a lot of luck with the Dallas library search engine. I don't get up there very often, and some preparation with the online catalog has saved me many precious hours on site! Kathleen Ellis Searching Ellis and Knox in Hill County, Texas