This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Staat, Dewey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2362.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: I was trying to go back thru my information to see where I got Elizabeth Staat as the wife of Joshua W. Dewey. It seem, I went back to the ftp:/ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/wood/vitals/births/ wdbirthd.txt under wood county births Dewey, " " 12/4/1853 Joshua W. & Elizabeth Staats (?) Not sure if the transcriber can't read Elizabeth Staats, which would easly bring us back to Elizabeth Smith, or if the ? is for some other reason. Not directing this question to anyone in particular, just bringing it up for those who think everything here is the absolute, beyond doubt fact.