This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boman, Bowman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jV.2ADE/49 Message Board Post: My wife's family is the Boman/Bowman family in Moro, AR. I have done some work on her line. I had been away from ancestry work for a while due to work but had come up with a pretty good idea that they moved to the Moro area from Alabama. The two brothers that came here were listed in the Alabama Census as Bowman's but used Boman in once in Arkansas. Their tombstones say Boman. My wife's father and his siblings were Bowman. Why the speling changes, ??????? Who knows. My father in law died years but I married. Search is on. Will add more later.