This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH AMES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1767.1.1 Message Board Post: Many thanks! That means she must have moved her family to live near one of her sisters, Martha Smith McNitt, who lived in that area of Michigan. You have given me much more to go on now.