This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Strong, Brookbank, McAuliff, McDowell, Powers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/3359 Message Board Post: I just found out that I have an ancestor named David O. Strong who was born in CT. and so were his father and mother., but I don't know where, possibly around 1825 or 1828. David shows up in the 1880 Illinois Cook Co. census and he is 55 yr. old. In 1870 Illinois Cook Co. he says he is 42 yr. old. Does anybody have a David O. Strong that wandered off west about that time that cannot be accounted for? Or does anybody know anything about this person. Please write me. Verna