This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHORTRIDGE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/670.870 Message Board Post: John: I am a day late and a dollar short - but I may be a distant relative of Andrew Shortridge. My g grandfather, Joseph Edward, was a son of Andrew Jefferson. He was born in Taswell Cnty, VA - was in the Civil War and moved around in various areas in Minnesota. He died in 1919 in Latah Cnty, Idaho. Joseph Edward married Matilda Bogar and had six children, all born in Minnesota, one of them being my grandfather. My father was born in Latah Cnty, Idaho. Don't know much about it all, haven't been doing this very long and as may be the case, I may not have the right family.