This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FORBES, BECHER, WATSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEX.2ACIB/788.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jeanette, If you take a look at the Fobes, or any other, message listings you will often see message titles with two letter acronyms in them. Without exception these relate to the two letter abbreviations given to each of the U.S. states. So in my case, OR means Oregon and WA means Washington state. Thus the country they refer to is obvious. As for the FORBES line I'm seeking information about, I'm just hoping that someone might be connected to or have knowledge of the Frank Forbes the second husband my ancestor Ethel Ivy, née Becher [whose first husband was William Henry Watson]. Frank married her in 1926 in Spokane, WA [ie Washington state]. >From 1948 they lived at 135 Sixth Avenue, Seaside, Clatsop County, OR [ie Oregon]. He died sometime before her death on August 2, 1961. There was at least one child from her first marriage and I have some details about her. I'm sorry I have no other Forbes info at all. Does this Forbes ring a bell with you ? Alistair