I was a Harrison by birth but my daughter is named after a cousin of Laura Ingalls of Little House on the Prairie fame. I didn't know it was the same Ingalls until recently! The Ingalls family (sometimes spelled with one L) originated in Massachusetts, I think, but with the Wilder family, some of them ended up in upstate NY for the logging business that kept everyone employed from the 1700s until the end of the 1800s. In the meantime, many people were hired to log or help in construction of the Erie Canal. My family cousins blazed a trail from Albany, NY, through the western NY counties, kept going at Buffalo and eventually ended up in Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois across the lakes. If your people moved across NY state in the early 1800's to mid 1800s, the chances were good that they were in involved in what has been called "The Biggest WPA Project in History." The Ingalls family in my town moved on too (in the 1820s) and the branch that I know of is now in CA! That's a long way from NY. Happy hunting! Phyllis Reed