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/zV.2ADI/1606.3.1 Message Board Post: Terrie: Sorry I didn't reply right away, but I wanted to recheck my file and refresh my memory on the details of this famillly. I am not related to this family but, as I said in my original e-mail, I am helping someone to locate any relatives of David JORGENSON so we can offer them photos and memorabilia of his that we now have. What I learned of David Frederick JORGENSON's family is that he was the son of John C. and anna (ANDERSON0 JORGENSON. He was from Denmark and she from Sweden, both apparently coming to this country in the 1880s. They married in 1892-3 and David, their only son, was born in October of 1893. David married twice but had no children (It is a granddaughter of his second wife who inherited his photos, etc.). John and Anna also had three daughters, Margaret, Viola and Olga, all born before 1900. Margaret and Olga never married (At least they are still unmarried in the 1930 census.). Viola married Maurice CAMPION and had one surviving daughter, Joan Phyllis. John and Anna lived in Piedmont (a suburb of Oakland) from at least 1910 until their deaths in the 1930s-40s.Viola was also in ! Alameda County until her death in 1961. As you can see, there appears to be no place for Walter to fit into this family. If you would like a little free advice on some places you might look.... (If not, just ignore this paragraph.) Assuming you have taken the first steps (checking through family papers, asking your aunt and uncle, etc.), have you looked for a birth certificate? If Walter was born in California, the statewide registration of births started in July 1905, so Walter would just make it under the wire. If he were born in a big city like Oakland, the birth would almost certainly be registered. In a more rural area, it might be several years before all births were registered. Do you know when and where he was married? The marriage license application, or even better a wedding announcement in a local newspaper, might give some information on his family. Do you know where he lived in the early years of his marriage? If so, it might pay to use a message board to find someone who will search the city directories for that place. This would give you some information on what he was doing and might even reveal a widowed father or mother who lived with the family a few years. Good luck. Harold For anyone else reading this message, I am still trying to find Joan (pronounced Jo-Ann I have learned) Phyllis CAMPION. She married Charles Aston WARD and I have found her in the San Jose city directories into the 1970s. She is probably still alive and may well still be in San Jose, but we have not been able to get in touch with her.