In a message dated 8/28/2007 11:53:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi everyone. According to Civil War records, my ancestor was born in 1837 in "Mt. Pleasant, Canada". There are several, but there is one near Brantford, Brant County, Ontario which seems likely. In 1850 the family is found in Town of Barre, Orleans County, New York. Then in 1860 they are found residing in Conneaut, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Does anyone know of or can help speculate why a family whose patriarch was born in NY, then briefly in 1837 crossed the boarder to Canada only to come back again to NY? I don't know of any family members who may have been in that part of Canada at that time. Boarder changes? Records are few and precious. The surname is VanBUREN. I have several family lines that made moves from NY to Canada in that time period, however most then went on west to Michigan. Those family lines originated around Herkimer and spent a few years in Jefferson Co, NY, then went across the river into Canada. I can only guess that Canada was opening up new areas for settlement about that time and so good farm land was readily available and cheap. On my father's side of the family, several sisters of is great-great-grandfather started out in the Buffalo area and married men who lived around Guelph. They were part of a large Mennonite settlement there. The little I've read is that a number of Mennonites from NY and Pennsylvania moved to Waterloo, Ontario. Jennifer Clark ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour