This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/188.209.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sue, I really don't know if your James is related. I do know that James was a very popular name in my family, handed down in every generation so there could be a connection. Did James go to Illinois in the 1840s or Arkansas in the 1850s? If so, perhaps there is a connection.