This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VYG.2ACIB/1228.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Wow! I am a little taken back by all the info you gave me. In fact I am unsure now if we are related. I hope that we are but am left unsure. It is likely but difficult to be sure. Firstly, how old are you. secondly, please give me a person by person by person lineage of your family (as you know it) so I can sort out the facts. It is possible that the person you call gg grandpa Buck is the same as the one in my lineage but I need to see what else you have for facts. I think it may be that the person you are talking about is infact my gg grandfather and not Joseph Harlan Buck my grandfather. Rather, Joseph William Buck. The difficulty is the names you gave for his children. It is always possible that names have changed with familiarity but are not actually proper names. Please don't be discouraged. It has been a couple of years that I have been looking for extended family and far more are the missing links than the found ones. I will do all I can to help. Why did you mention Mable? Mable Marie Staley married Joseph Harlan Buck some time in the late 30's and they had 8 children. Joseph had one child tha we now of before that. I, and most of the related Bucks, live in Oregon and have lived here or in Washington since about 1890. However many of our kin have spread out and returned to other states in the intervening years. Please let me know what you can. We might be like 3rd or 4th cousins? Please write me at home if you wish. Best Whishes, Archie