This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beam, Bollinger, Bolinger Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gh.2ADI/569.1 Message Board Post: Several of the Beam Family came to Indiana from Darke County, Ohio during the period you mentioned. My Beam family settled in Wabash County, Indiana. I am of distant relation to the Bolinger (sometimes spelled Bollinger) that settled in Huntington County, Indiana. However, I have not come up with the name Florence Beam. By going to the genealogy website of Darke County, Ohio, you can find my family tree starting with George W. Beam who was born in 1811 and married a Susanna Brumbaugh. It seems that many of the Beams that passed through Darke County, Ohio, came from Lancaster County and other counties in Pennsyslvania. I wish I could be more help. Dick Beam