This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hide/Hyde/Hite/Thomas/Finn/Rigsby/Shields Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4Yk.2ACIB/731.752.788.1 Message Board Post: I am wondering if there is a connection in our Hide, Hite, Hyde line. My family also changed the spelling from Hide to Hite during the late 1800's. I have no idea where they were prior to the 1850's. Until then they were in KY.