This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HINDS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKj.2ACIB/345 Message Board Post: Thanks to Nan's help, I can now trace my ancestry back to Rev. Thomas William Hinds who left Ohio in May 1850 and arrived in California in September 1850. His family settled in Santa Cruz. I cannot find any information on this man--where he was born (England??), or when. His wife died during the journey to California, but I can't find his wife's name, either. His children are: Alfred J. Hinds b. Indiana? who married Sarah. Amelia Hinds b. Indiana?, who married Duncan McPherson of Santa Cruz around 1870. And William J. Hinds b. 1849? Indiana? who married Mary. I can trace my lineage from William J. to Hugh Howe to Hugh Clarence to myself. Anyone have any information on this Thomas William Hinds?