This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Weld, Swift Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nNABAIB/4012.1.1 Message Board Post: Jeffrey, Thank you very much for your encouraging reply. Yes, since my original posting in 1998 (!), I've made some progress on putting together the family of William Hart Phillips and Olive Weld (with a LOT of help from many kind correspondents). I'm convinced Laura E. Phillips must connect to this family somehow- a Delos visited the Swifts in Ann Arbor, a James and Nathaniel were at Laura's wedding, Laura was supposedly born in Buffalo NY, near Hamburg, where Olive Weld's family lived. I just haven't been able to conclusively prove exactly where Laura fits in this large family. She might be Olive's niece, she might be an unrecorded daughter of William and Olive. I'll have another look around RootsWeb, because I haven't seen the page you referred to