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/3h.2ADE/406.458.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know. When I started researching the Stoys, I thought this would be easy with such a weird name. Still can't figure out why there were so many Stoys running around the States back in the 1700's. Still trying to hook up Daniel Stoy of Somerset County, PA to my ancestor William Henry (Wilhelm Heinrich) Stoy from Herborn, Germany who settled in near Philadelphia. Since Daniel came from England, that generously expands just how many Stoys there were around Europe. I have some information about a Peter Uriah Stoy who MAY be descended from one of William Henry's children, William. Still haven't made the connection yet though.