This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chism, Bell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fi.2ADE/918.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Bonita, I looked in my database and I don't have any record of the Chism's you are related to. But that doesn't mean we aren't related. Chism isn't a very common name I don't and since yours lived in the same place as mine it is very likely that they are related. Also, my great-great-grandmother Sara Francis Chism was born in Indiana, but her mother, Mary Bell, was born probably in Missouri, and that's a stone's throw from Arkansas. I just don't know where the relationship is.Anyway, keep in touch and maybe one of us will find something. Brian Salmons