This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Purple Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zg.2ADI/755 Message Board Post: I have a brickwall here. He was born in NY in 1820. He moced to Wisconsin were he prospered some. He died in 1879. I am trying to findout who he came from.