This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Large Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/795.1.1 Message Board Post: I would say we are connected, but I don't have Samuel in my database-do you know when and where he was born? his parents' names, any of his brothers and sisters? If not, can you find any census records with Samuel and his wife and kids or as a child in his parents' home-my line was in White Co., IL, I would look there first. Keep in touch with me-I will help you find them.