This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALGER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1AC.2ACI/1793.1 Message Board Post: I cannot offer you anything but clues on your Ira Alger. First, there was an Ira Alger, born about 1795, who settled in "Canada East" (Quebec). He was the son Nathaniel and Mary (Owen) Alger. Nathaniel was born in Killingly, CT and died in Richmond, VT. They had nine children: Nathaniel, Joseph, David, James, Ira, Auel, Truman, Allen and Leonard. Allen and Ira were twins. I wonder if he was your Ira's father, or perhaps his twin Allen, who also went to Canada East. I also have a disconnected Percy Alger of Stanstead who married Ellen ____ and had a son Lucius abt 1845. He might be connected to one of these families.