This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grisham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XV.2ADI/415 Message Board Post: I have been told that the education act was passed in 1860, and local school boards would have kept records of children attending school. I am looking for my g-grandfather, Charlie R. Grisham, born August 1880. Is there any validity to this and can someone look him up, is there any information that would tell who his parents are? I am have a hard time connecting him to his parents, only family stories. Kathy