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/gFB.2ACE/1268.2 Message Board Post: Any idea where in NY where your ancestors came from? I have ancestors who came from Dutchess Co. NY and settled in Herkimer Co. in the early 1800s. Some stayed there, some possibly to Jefferson Co. for a while and some went to Michigan after the Cival War. Bob Tanner