This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0IQBAEB/264.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Sue Saw your message and had to reply because my Stroups are from Missouri, in fact I'm stuck in Missouri but have gather quite a bit on information on the Stroups. My great, great, great grandfather William Stroup had a brother by the name of Jacob. William also had a son, his third son, by the name of Jacob who was born in Indiana in 1853. Guess my question is which Jacob might be yours?