This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gift Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zJB.2ACE/1631.1.2.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Mark: I have spent quite a long time tracking down your Daniel Gift and have not been able to pin him down tightly. There were two Daniel Gift's born around 1844, one moved to Indiana and stayed there and the other one was born in Indiana and I lose track of quickly. There is a Daniel Gift, son of David Gift and Ellen Grimes, born in Indiana about 1845. The family shows up in the 1850 census in Anderson Township, Madison County, Indiana. They are on page 66. The family does not show up in the 1860 census and by the 1870 census, your Daniel was already married to Charlotte Welch. If the parents of this Daniel died when he was young, he may have grown up thinking that he was born in Ohio, since many of his siblings were. That is the best lead that I have so far, and I will continue to follow it until I find something else. If this lead pans out, that would put you in the Johann Nicholas Gift branch of the family.