This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLOOM, BOWERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CFB.2ACI/356.1 Message Board Post: I, too, am researching the BLOOM families mentioned (i.e., William, Adam and Samuel). I believe these three are brothers and that Samuel is the one who appears in the 1870 census in Washington Co. MD, in 1880 in WVA, Berkeley, Falling Waters Dist., and by 1900 has died leaving a widow, Mary, in WVA Berkeley, Headesville Magesterial Dist, ED13. My primary interest is in William and his son, William Urlanus, but any information on this BLOOM family would be appreciated. Please reply to my NEW address: caris651@yahoo.com!! Carolyn