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/VRB.2ACE/1745.1 Message Board Post: There were Armstrongs in Hudson. Ostranders up & down the Hudson Valley on both sides. Your query needs more information such as a time frame. When? A given name? Henry,Hiram,Ida & Philip H are listed in French's Historical Gazetteer of NY c 1860 surname index.spelling Ostrander/Oostrander in Sylvester's History of Ulster Co.