This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Guthrie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IBh.2ACIB/1218.2 Message Board Post: The easiest start for your research would be to ask a few questions of family members and begin collecting birth and death certificates. Both contain lots of information as to parents, etc. Keep in mind that both will be recorded where the event took place...not necessarily where the person lived. The birth and death certificates will easily link you up with the censuses...and those will carry you back to 1790.