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/YeB.2ACI/547.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Sorry this is off your subject, but I saw "Reid" in your surname list. I have a John A. Reed/Reid (the name is spelled both ways on his children's tombstones). He was born in Alabama in 1834. He moved to Alabama in the 1840s, possibly with his sister Sarah and his grandmother Mary. I have no information on his parents. Do any of these names connect with your Reids?