This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1776.1 Message Board Post: Karin wrote, "I am hoping to connect with anyone researching the Robert and Katharina Spiers Hardie family who first appear in the 1900 Federal census in Boone, Iowa ..." Karin, what is the connection between this family and Black Hawk county?