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/5g.2ADI/84.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, but although these Cranes are no doubt related to my Cranes, they are not mine. My info (from LDS FamilySearch) tells me that my Isaac Crane was born in Belleville, Washington Cty, IL on Oct. 30, 1825; married Nancy Shaw in 1846; and died in St. Clair Cty, IL in 1894. Nancy however had come from Tennessee, and before that her family came from North Carolina--as, I saw, many of the Washington and St. Clair County settlers did (including Cranes). I have found a rich lode of families intermarried, journeyed west together or subsequently soon after, from these areas as the frontier edged west from the Appalachians through the first half of the 19th century. What I have not been able to do is trace *my* Isaac Crane back any further.