This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Trace Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GdSBAIB/67.1 Message Board Post: The newspaper caught my eye with Zanesville mentioned. My father was born in Zanesville in 1915, Joseph Otha Trace and he was the son of Otha Burtus Trace, brother Daniel Leslie and Mother was Josephine Kathryn (Kate) Smith. I have not done any research on this side of the family (Trace) but I am a DAR via my grandmother. There also were brothers of Otha who were named Wilmer and Homer who lived in the Cleveland Ohio area I think. I don't have a bible or anything to follow up on. I don't wven know the origin of the name. Jodie Trace Holder