This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28308.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Unfortunately my Smith's left New York around 1833 and continued westward to Lenawee County, Michigan. Joseph's children continued westward on their own. In the 1890s they were in Iowa and would continue westward. I am currenly looking for them in western Michigan in the 1880's and 1890s.