This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yoakem Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GW.2ADE/998.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the information Judy but I have already done everything that you said to do....but I have found one thing out...I was told that my dad died Dec 22,1945 just a few days before the war ended...well the last battle of WW II was fought in Sept...that just opened up a bigger mystery...now we don't know if he is dead or alive....Most assuredly I have been lied to all these years....so the information that I had about him was inaccurate and now all I have to go on is his name...don't have SS# birthplace or anything at all on him now....well we do have the fact that he married Mom but we don't even know where or exactly when they were married so I guess it will remain a mystery....But thanks for you help.....All I can hope for now is that someone knew him and comes forward from some of the postings that I have done