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Hi there. I just saw this and am thinking I never responded to you regarding Edward Wells. I am assuming this is Josiah and Jane's son? I would love to hear from you.

David, I haven't found the records or any more answers on this. As far as my Davis family goes, That is my biggest mystery, but I do not believe they will be connected to yours. As far as I know, they were in the US probably pre-Civil War. My g-g-grandfather Davis is officially and definitely in NJ in 1874 with church records, but before that I search and search and he just doesn't want to be found, and after his wife dies in 1909, he disappears again. I think I have him in some early census records near Princeton, NJ, but I can't find any records to corroborate that is him, and with a name like Davis, that's definitely needed. The rumor is he was Welsh, but I can't confirm that either.

good luck with your research.

I know what you mean. Not mine either. Are you looking for Schmiegs?

Did you find any of your people on the social security death index on www.familysearch.org? If so, I would take a couple of the more recent and do a search on the computer for a library in or near where they died. If you find the website for the library, you should be able to find an email address. What I do is send an email to the library asking what their policy is on getting obituaries, but I also give all the information: "I was wondering what your policy on obitaining obituaries is. I am looking for an obit for Xxxx Yyyyyyy, who died on 1/1/1901 in smalltown. Thank you for your help." Nine times out of ten, they will send the obit right off in an email. And that one time, they will tell you it will cost $3, or some very inconsequential amount of money. When you get the obituary, it should have names of kids and grandkids, and oftentimes what town they lived in. There is a site, www.whitepages.com, which will give you addresses for people. Or, when you get to that point, I can look some names up in the directories and public records on Ancestry. Be sure to do that in a personal message, though. No names of living relatives should be put on Rootschat, for privacy reasons.

Let me check on Ancestry for family trees also. I hadn't seen any when doing lookups, but I didn't specifically look either.

If you couldn't tell, finding longlost living relatives is a huge thrill for me, just like cracking brickwalls on the dead ones.

Kath