This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills, Anderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/3603.1.1 Message Board Post: This could be it. I know birth states can get mixed since the census takers took the word of someone about birth state, etc. I'm going to check for my Wm Alexander's daughter Hixie's birth local as Akin, Illinois and Indiana. Thank you for your response and help. Judy K