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/GBC.2ACI/1002.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the note. If we only knnew if our Melvina/Lavina/ Malvina SMITH had siblings it surely would help. The only real document we have is a message sent by a preacher to please add the marriage to the lists of entries by himself as the minister of the ceremony. That was in 1802. We have various circa birth data from census and other items of the children which show her birth as about 1893 via her own census count of age given (which either makes her a contract child bride in 1802) as does using the year of 1810/11 for the 1st child. Either that or she was illiterate about her birth age and place. It doesn't make a lot of sense.......