This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Herdman, Carrel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YYB.2ACI/140.40.228.554.555.653.899 Message Board Post: I think we might be connected. My Great-Grandmother was Charlotte Herdman, daughter of William Thomas Herdman and Louisa Brown of Adams County, OH. William was the son of John and Anna(Susanna) Downing. John was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Shoemaker. What do you think. I have lots of info on the brothers who came to Iowa from Ohio.