This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Borkey, Burkey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CmG.2ACIB/2.12.13.14.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Glad to help. If you run across an Elias S. Borkey/Burkey b. 1936, I could use some help. He appears in the 1850 census in Berks County, age 14, and lived to claim his inheritance in 1886, but I have not been able to find him and his family anywhere.