This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wm.2ADEB/1916.1946.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know of a Nettie Bates in our line, but it is possible. Some of the Bates family moved West early on. We are in the Clement Bates line; My father was James Milton m to Grace Davis, his father was was James Lyman, m to Gladys Ames, his father was James M married to Ruby Andrus, his father was James married to Sally Grover, his father was James m to Rebecca Collier. They were pioneers of Chautauqua County, we think they moved further West. Let me know if any of it seems to fit.