This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QBC.2ACI/0.283.143.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I've never exchanged like that. Usually we've just exchanged deadends and seen if we could add to each others knowledge. Also share descent info so that we could place each other in context! Now, about that Jones..... Are they from the area around Hagarstown, MD, before the Revolution? My John Andrew Jones left Maryland and moved to Iowa via Ohio and Indiana. With all this "cousining" I thought this would be worth a shot!