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/SVC.2ACEB/164.2 Message Board Post: My Baron family is from the Dole area of eastern France, not too far from the Lorraine. I can trace back the Baron family only so far as the 1850s when my ggrandfather, Joseph Baron, was born. Anyone with knowledge of this line please reply.