This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Andrus - Bates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wm.2ADEB/1916.1946.1 Message Board Post: I am researching our Andrus line, rather unsuccessfully. My ggrandmother was Melissa Andrus Bates.b9-28-1845. Her parents were Lyman & Ruby Andrus from VT. They lived and died in Chaut. Co. NY, Gerry/Sinclairville area.