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/4RB.2ACE/3128 Message Board Post: Hello, I am trying to locate parents for my 3rd gr/grandma CAROLINE HOOS, probably born in the 1770's. She married my 3rd gr/grandfather LAWRENCE HOOPER, b. abt. 1769 Saratoga, NY; d. 1829 in Ulysses, Tompkins County. Because of the lack of info on her in Tompkins Co, I belive she was probably not born there, and may have been born in Saratoga County like her husband. I am looking in Saratoga Co as well, but there may be some records that give her parents' names in Tompkins County. According to the 1840 Census she was living in Enfield then, and may have died there some time before 1850, as there seems to be no trace of her after 1840. The surname was probably VAN HOOS originally, or maybe VAN HUSUM, or possibly HOUSE/HOWSE. I would like more info on her husband's HOOPER line too; I have him back to his father STEPHEN HOOPER, who was a spy for the British during the revolution, then switched sides after being captured and jailed. There may have been strife within that family because of revolutionary issues (my theory). I have changed my email address to: updike58@sasktel.net Dale Updike Saskatchewan, Canada