This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gibson, Gibons,Gibney, Gibboney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1680.1.2 Message Board Post: I do not know your particular Gibson family, but I do have a suggestion that comes from experience with your surname. My ancestors surname was actually Gibboney. I have also found them listed as Gibbons, Gibney, and Gibson. If it were not for the first names of the children and the wife's mother living with them, I would have never found them at all. Gibson and Gibons are easy to transpose for census takers. Karen Moore Kerr