This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bidgood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ClD.2ACEB/1.9.25 Message Board Post: Hi Don, I have been as busy as a bee trying to make sense of the pile of information that I have. My grandfather, James Edward Bidgood WAS born in Pennsylvania as was his wife Rachel Benson. They are listed on the 1910 miracode census for the State of Virginia and it indicates that their daughter Virginia Catherine, apparently born in PA, was with them. Virginia died sometime between 1910 and 1920 from a diptheria plague in Norfolk Virginia, which I have found occured in 1917, 1918 and 1919. You could have hit me with a baseball bat when it all fell into place by eliminating incorrect info. which was the birth certificate of my grandfather, James Edward, I think his birth was recorded in PA. and VA. I need to focus on Rachel, James Edward and Virginia. I'll get back to you sometime on this. If you have any interesting peices of the puzzle, please let me know. Thanks, Mary