This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/526.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Karen Depending on how far back your Thorntons go, it's always a good chance you came through the Virginia Thorntons....but I've talked to several Thorntons in England, and the consensus is that all Thorntons come from the area of Yorkshire, England... My little branch left Virginia for Kentucky, then on to Iowa...from there they scattered...I do know a few ended up in Nebraska, somewhere, and even a couple returned to Kentucky. My grandparents left Iowa for California. I'm stuck because I have nothing on my great great grandfather before 1850, so all I know for sure is he was born in Virginia in 1801...I'm still searching for more information, but if it's out there, it's going to be as hard to find as the rest of my line....