This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Black - Addy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1908 Message Board Post: I am in need of advice and/or information. While researching my family tree, I've looked at a lot of information posted on the web and also received some emails and even a few xerox copies, and the more I see, the more confused I become. According to that information, the parents of Isaac Allen Black (b. 1873 d. 1955 - info from his tombstone) are John A. Black and Rebecca Addy. I have no other information on John A. Black. I have plenty of information on the parents and the ancestors of Rebecca Addy, but almost none on her. The only date I have found on the web for her birth is 1868, which would make her a mother at the age of five! Her parents were married in 1851, so it is possible that she is Isaac's mother, but only if she was one of the first born. I suppose it's possible that there were two Rebecca Addys in southwest Iowa. There seems to have been lots of wholesale movements of entire clans during the 1800's. I would appreciate any and all information.