This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1048.1 Message Board Post: LaVon wrote, "I have been told that Margaret Jane Patterson was b. in Wylausing,WI. 22 May 1866 and parents are Will & Ann Smith Patterson of Iowa. Can some one help confirm and would like to know of marriage/marriages of the same Margaret Jane Patterson." LaVon, the 1870 census shows a MARY (not Margaret) Patterson in Wyalusing, but she was born abt 1848, not 1866. There is a MARGARET Patterson in Beetown in 1870, but she was born abt 1859 and her parents are Edmund and Elizabeth from Ireland. There are zero results when searching the 1870 index for a Margaret Patterson b in WI 1864-1868 (none appear in any state) Searching for a Margaret Patterson b in IA 1864-1868 results in one match in Richland, Jones, IA, but the parents are George and Margaret of Ireland. IN all instances I used a wild card search (PAT*R*SON) to pick up "all" instances and spellings. Can we work backward from some known and documented fact? Do you have information about "your" Margaret's siblings, husband, children?