This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/REX.2ACIB/3699.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Elizabeth -- Thanks for writing. I'm sorry, but your John Ford & George Ford don't ring a bell with me. However, that's not to say that they aren't connected, but I just don't know. Hezekiah's & Mary's four known children (John Stocker Ford, Alvin, Esther Ann & Harriet) all settled in Illinois -- in Boone Co., to start with, town of Belvidere. There is a book I found online that tries to trace 2 or 3 different Ford families, & it was written in the late 1800's by Hannibal Ford. I think I found it through Heritage Quest Online, which you can have access to through public & college libraries. You might try to access that Ford family history & see if you find your John & Julia & George. That's interesting that your guy moved back east! If you find something, please post it for everybody's benefit. Good luck!