To all interested Woolsey researchers: I have been spending 6 to 8 to 10 hours in the LDS Family History Library here in Salt Lake, most days working on various branches of the WOOLSEY family. Your comments and information have been received and put into the computer (that's why I am up so late tonight). However, I am getting behind in my correspondence. Please forgive me if I haven't gotten right back to you. Accept my thanks for all the help and interest you have shown. If I have promised to send you something and you haven't received it, please remind me again. Actually, I am doing what I really like best and that is original research. By the way, Charles H. Woolsey, I spent two days in the library on your Shannon Co., MO Woolseys, and Shelby Co., IL Woolseys. There are only three books in the library on Shannon Co, MO, so I read some microfilm. Not much help. Shelby Co., IL has dozens of books and I checked each one but only one indication (a Mrs. Wolsey in 1889) of Woolseys ever being there. I checked indexes to deeds and probates, but no success. I did check census records but it appears that you already have that data. That reminds me. Has anyone checked out the Illinois State Marriage Index on-line? There are over 200 marriages (from early to 1900) and I have been able to identify only about 1/2 of them, most of them before 1870. This would be a good project for you all who have Illinois Woolsey roots. Enough for now. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker