This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blain, Blaine, Dimick, Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4RB.2ACE/3179 Message Board Post: I have records of Otis James Blain (Blaine) up to 1900. Then he disappears. The Blaines were a family from Schyler, Ulysses and Trumansburg. Otis married Stella Dimick (Trumansburg) and it was recorded in the Methodist Church records. I wonder, however, if there are any records of Otis James Blain's death. He was my grandfather. Also sometime between 1900 and 1917 my father, Harold Otis changed his name from Blaine to Barnes. Anyone have any idea why he did that?