This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGB.2ACI/97.152.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The timeline would probably work out for my John LaDue who had a daughter, Birdie, in 1876 (born in Montezuma, NY). Do you know where your LaDue family lived, or anything else about them? If our LaDue origins are the same, look at the coincidence of our last names. My maiden name, Schaertl, is pronounced "Shirtl"