At 10:50 PM 11/30/1999 +0200, you wrote: >Hello all and especially Joanne Webb, > >Joanne Webb wrote as follows: >"I am kind of new to this use of the inter-net. So far I have managed to >keep in touch with my kids, two of them in Florida and one in Mississippi. I >have four here in Arkansas ,all but one is online. I'm not sure if my reply >to you goes out to everyone on the Woods list, but here is my info. My >Greatgrandfather was Fredrick Woods,born in 1873 in Bladensburg,Knox >Co.,Ohio. He married Elisa Jones and died in 1905 in Belvidere,Boone Co., >Illinois. None of our family has been able to discover his Father's name or >any thing farther back. I really hope someone will be able to come up with a >link. I don't know of any connection in South Africa. Good luck to you too." > The Ohio Federal Census Index for Heads of Families for the year 1870 (3 years before the birth of Frederick Woods, above) shows only four Woods indexed in Knox County (M593-Roll 1229): Edward Woods, 42, M, W, b. in OH, in Jackson Twp, p. 296; Frederick Woods, 35, M, W, b. in OH, in Jackson Twp., p. 296; John Woods, 33, M, W, b. in OH, in Jackson Twp., p. 297; Timothy Woods, 47, M, W, b. in OH, in Clay Twp., p. 227 What do you bet that the first three are brothers, living in or near Bladensburg, and one of them is Frederick's father, probably the Frederick Woods, age 42! The 1880 Federal Census would confirm which one was the father of Joan's Frederick Woods! It would also give the state of birth of young Frederick's grandfathers and grandmothers, which would help a lot to taking her Woods genealogy back even further. George W. Page