Searching You can search this site for all references to a full name or surname, which is especially helpful for the Original Homesteaders and the Heads of Household listed on the 1900 census. This will also pick up any tidbits we might have posted about individual family members. Or you can jump to our World Connect database smc and use their Search feature to find thousands of individuals for whom nothing has been posted directly to this site. Families we can place in the area between 1889 and 1907 but can't tie to other families. Using the Index If Search doesn't turn up the individual you are looking for, please remember that many of the records used are handwritten and some copies are almost unreadable.
Transcription errors are probably quite common.
I use the following index pages in maintaining the links from this site to WorldConnect. They may help you find names transcribed in error or recorded with spelling variations, but some of these pages take a long time to load so our search and that of WorldConnect are better places to start. The Head of the Family. Usually this is a homesteader, early settler, or businessman - but sometimes it is the common ancestor of related ones. Some who link the Founding Families by marriage.