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/CFB.2ACI/620.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You could try tracing John H. BELL on the censuses from 1870 backward to 1850, the first year that the entire family was named on the federal census. John should have been with his parents in 1850.