This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stoup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0IQBAEB/301.1 Message Board Post: The Broderbund Census Index CDs give these records as: 1810 Stoup, Wendil PA Armstrong Co. Buffaloe Twp. p. 390 1820 Stoup, Vendel PA Armstrong Co. Buffaloe Twp. p. 298 I have examined images of the original census pages (online at Ancestry.com), and the surname is definitely STOUP, not STROUP. STOUP is a bona fide surname, and there were a number of STOUP families in western PA, primarily in Alleghany Co. Bottom line -- in my opinion -- Wendell was not a STROUP.