My 2nd GGFather, John Benjamin Smith married Janet ( Jane ) Young in Whitby abt. 1830, and migrated to Nauvoo IL, where all of the family died except a daughter named Lois, my GGrandmother.
John Benjamin was the son of John Smith and Nancy Beatty.
John was the son of Henry Smith, born in Germany we believe in 1734. He migrated to America, NY we think, and then to Ontario abt. 1790. We have extensive records on the Young line, back to Scotland.
It's the Beatty line that has us stumped. If we could trace her back to NY, we may be able to locate her. We know she was "half Irish & half Yank", as described in some old family letters.
Doesn't sound like we link up, but we know there were many Smith and Young family's that stayed in the Whitby area.
Mark
McOmber@Montana.com