--- [email protected] wrote: > My great grandfather was a blacksmith in Missouri in the late > 1800s & early 1900s. I am trying to get as much information as > I can about his life. > My great-grandfather was also a blacksmith, beginning as an apprentice in New York state in the 1860s, he moved to Michigan where he married (in 1875) and had a blacksmith's shop with a wagon shop attached. In 1884 the family moved to southern Missouri. He died there in 1893. I would like to know more about what it was like to be a blacksmith in that period of time. What would his apprenticeship have entailed? Thank you! ===== Jane Irish Nelson [email protected] Jane's Genealogy Jigsaw: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishgirl/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools