This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oakes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XBB.2ACE/22.23.25 Message Board Post: I'm not sure if we are related but I have a Tom Oakes in my family history . The family origanilly moved to Kansas from Iowa , there was 7 children names of :Mary Jane (Jannie), Ann,Frank,Charles E., Della, Effie,and Authur. They moved from Iowa to somewhere around McPherson ,Kansas .Tom would be the the brother of my gg grandfather Abram Oakes.