This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Donaldson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gIT.2ACEB/887.1 Message Board Post: My Donaldsons originated from Albany, NY, I believe. They settled in Washington, DC. Some lived on Belt Road in N.W. The matriach was Louisa Donaldson (nee Bowman(?)), who had sixteen children -- Arthur, Clevie, George, William, Benjamin (Frank), Emma, Matilda, et al. Louisa and George died in 1937 and are buried at Eldebrooke Methodist Church cemetary in the Tenleytown Area of DC.