This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: chisholm Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HU.2ADI/1634.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your reply..I didn't hold out much hope for information prior to 1830..and I will look at the records you mentioned. A friend told me that one of her genealogy friends said that she figured that her ancestors were arsonists; because every court house she went to for their information had burned down..ha. that certainly has been the case with my Chisum/Chisolm relatives..donna