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/YRB.2ACE/1394.2.1 Message Board Post: I did read that article last month! It was facinating but I had initially discounted it as perhaps not being applicable to me. However, thanks to some email from other members, I now think that one of the "Frank Blaise" lineages she mentions (specifically the Francois Bourgeois/M-Louise R.L'Eculyer) is infact, the father of my "Joseph Blaise". What changed my mind? I did find a "Frank Blaize" in the 1870 census with a son of Joseph. However, the age of Joseph was off by about 2 years. While I know there are many factors that could play into incorrect census information, it wasn't quite the slam dunk I was looking for. However, one of the people who emailed me said he was a decendent of an Andrew Blaise from Vermont. When I did a census search on that I came up with Andrew living in Addison county, same as Joseph. Intrigued, I went back to the 1870 Frank "Blaize" census. I did another search and found a "Frank Blaze" in 1880. The wife and several children matched between the two entries so it clearly seemed to be the same person. What's more, there's an Andrew Blaise in the 1875 census that matches the birth of the Andrew in the Vermont 1920 and 1930 census. Last night this same individual sent me some snippits from the grandson of Andrew Blaise and mentions the names of my great-grandfather Guy and great-uncle Fabian as bearers for Andrew's daughter Eliza in Middlebury, in 1939. This seems to clear up the mystery for me. If I could theorize, it seems plausable that rather than work in the hazzardous mines, two brothers would decide to move to the relative safety of farming.