This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/117.339.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Oh! Oh! OH! I'm soooo excited! LOL This is like finding a needle in a haystack for me. Even my MIL has always been in the dark as to the family and it's ties...so when I called her to tell her about your post reply...she was even excited. And it's hard to excite an 80 yr. old person. ;) Let's start with...1.) is your Peter's name pronounced the way I typed? "Ah-ras-im" I find it weird that one pronounced it one way and the other family another way. Maybe that's why it surprised my MIL that the two families were connected. 2.) Do you know what/if...the name is originally ARASIM? Or is it changed from something else?? I can give you dates/etc of this line of the family...but like I said, I only know about the kids...not much about the parents except names/birth dates/death dates, etc. SO any and all info on ANY connections is like icing on my genealogy cake! :) YES, yes...let's keep talking and trying to link all these people together...it would be such a waste to not know more about them and their lives. I have never been to Ironwood...husband has as a kid...but that was the last time. I did know during my years of marriage at least Joe, Elizabeth (known also as Tassa)...but even though Thomas (Tommy) is still living (in Ironwood)...I never have met him. And I can tell you that none of these girls had kids, and of the boys, none had sons to carry the name except John...my FIL...and he had my husband, Jim. We in turn have two sons (and a daughter) to carry on the line. We haven't lived in MI in over 23 yrs (after college)...but my MIL and SIL still live in MI..and we do go back. Actually just came back from taking our oldest son to college there (he opted to return to the midwest for it's friendlier people). I'm excited to make a connection.....so hang in there...we both might get some great info together. Kelley