This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shirey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/1970.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Barbara, Not sure if it was your website but someone had an old Cartoon like postal card sent to a Hiram Shirey. While my GG uncle had a son by that name, I do not think it's he for this one appears to have been in Westmoreland County, PA. I looked up the town Youngstown, PA. is in Westmoreland County. Not my lines at that time. And my relatives were in Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and California, by that time, in spite of hailing from Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania! If you like Historical things which I dearly love too check out art.com on the web. Also go into your search engines and enter Antiques, or items you can think of years ago... I've found some really "neat" stuff. A picture is worth 10,000 words when you're writing family biographies and want to describe for instance a laden lamp, washboard, churn, milkcan, threshing machine, flail, grain cradel, etc. as kids today don't know what you're speaking about! [And hey, I'm not that old, but sure grew up with it all on a farm!] Also Currier & Ives has a beautiful website! [They were the artists years ago with prints, etc. ] They along with art.com have beautiful photo's and scenes, etc.