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/jUB.2ACI/1103.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Anne, Thank you for your response. David was a farmer as far as I know. I expect that he could have found farmland closer than Broome County so still don't understand why he made such a drastic move. I don't think that I ever will :-(. Roland