This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alexander Black Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hFB.2ACE/469.1 Message Board Post: I too am researching a "Alexander Black" in Michigan I'm not sure if it is the same one or not but mine was born 1822 and died in 1908 and had a wife of Elizabeth born 1831 and died 1906 and had children of Frank, Nellie, Robert, George and Alexander Jr. Alexander Black was born in Scotland and came to the US in 1838 to New York State and came to Plymouth, Mi in the mid 1850's