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/2AIBAIB/107.122.127.181.1.1 Message Board Post: My request was from an old BB message from 2000. Someone had done research on the origin and was willing to pass it along. I never got a reply. We can trace back to Benjamin F Simpkins born in Cumberland County, NJ in 1852, but are stumped after that.