This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IBh.2ACIB/1123.3.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Please tell me me your connection to James Guthrie. I just found my g.g, grandfather is I think James Guthrey originally from Tennessee, father to John my g.grandfather. He is on a 1860 census for Arkansas with five sisters and one brother. I have found you can't stick with the spelling Guthrie, you have to consider at the time most people couldn't read and write and the census takers would spell it any way they wanted too. I have found mine to be Guthrey, Guthery, Gutherie, and Guthrie.