This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Strum/Strom/Strome. Cotrell/Cottrell, Reid/Read, Pace Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yBC.2ACI/473.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much. Are you from this line of Smiths? Before moving to Charlotte Co. VA or Prince Edward Co. VA, where did Christian Strum live. I wonder if he was Dutch, German, even Swiss. I have been wondered if he came from MD originally, based on nothing unfortunately. Betty Pace -- bapace2@juno.com