This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RFB.2ACE/1745.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My maiden name is Smith and if it hadn't been for my grgrandfather being a pioneer of my state (WA)--I would have had a heck of a time finding him. It also helped that his wife was a McComb--through them I found both families in Adams Co., IL. Her family was in a book at the Tacoma Library on Adams Co.