This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bruce, Pettis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOG.2ACIB/499.534 Message Board Post: My message represents kind of a long shot, but who knows, I might get lucky. My ancestor, Elizabeth Bruce, was born circa 1845-1850. On the US IL census data of 1870 she lists Tennessee as her birthplace. She would have been of Scottish heritage, and in fact may have been born in Scotland herself (in spite of what the census data says). Is it possible that you have data on Elizabeth? She married Samuel Benjamin Pettis in 1864 in IL, lived in IL the rest of her life, died in 1900.