This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1549.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Craig It doesn't look to me as if we have a common link, but of course that is never certain. My Hays group came through TN, then to MO, and IA. If the family originally was related and came through PA or NC or something, then perhaps there is a link. I note that in my family line the male names are Jesse, David, Ezekiel. Archibald, The women who married were from the families Armstrong, Brecht, Land. In TN they were Presbyterians....in case that is another clue. Let me know if you come up with something. Ellen ps In MO, my Hays married Hayes...so it becomes more complicated!