http://members.aol.com/ssprad25/ViaPages/Index.html Someone on the Hanover list was inquiring about Via family. Try the above URL. Maybe you will find a cousin. Sharing is the way to get things straight in this crazy hobby. I was messing about on the URL www.familysearch.org , as explained on a recent class session on this URL and found a link to U of Michigan website, which has links to all kinds of genealogy-oriented websites. And keep exploring the LDS website--there are census forms, I am told, some guides to Accelerated Indexing System (AIS) (a consolidated census index through 1850 on hundreds of microfiche) found in all LDS family history centers, etc. Not enough time in the day to hit all the links! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/united_states.html And that is how I stumbled onto the Via family website. E.W.Wallace