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/YYB.2ACI/1927.1 Message Board Post: Here's a possible way to find your answer. There is a listing for this family in the 1860 Census for Oliver Twp., which gives her origin as VA http://www.census-online.com/links The 1850 Census was taken after the marriage, so she is not in her parents family. Here again she is from VA. In fact there are a number of WALLACE listings in Adams Co. with origins from VA. Find out if a library in your area subscribes to an online provider of census data with 1850 and 1840 listings. You will need to put together some family group sheets on these WALLACE families to see if you can find her origins. Good Luck, Vera