This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Painter, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TNC.2ACI/1922 Message Board Post: Could someone please tell me how I might begin to search for a deserter from the states that supposedly joined the Mounties sometime between 1887 and 1894. His name prior to this incident was James Henry Painter b. in Ohio and after 1894 he was living in Minnesota under the name of Charles B. Smith where he stayed until his death in 1917. Thanks, Vicki tautegv@teleport.com