This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reid Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DVCBAEB/1954.1.1 Message Board Post: I am trying to trace my Reid ancesters. the timeframe of your Stephan is about right and also the Virginia and Kentucky connection. My Great Great Grandmother was a Venable of Virginia, she married a Reid, I do not know his first name. I do of course have information on my Great Grandfather (Samuel Reid and my Grandmother Edith Reid. (she raised me) any help and information would be welcome.