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/0JH.2ACEB/578.3 Message Board Post: Loretta, I would like very much to obtain any information you have on the Grasty/Grastie family. My great grandfather was Ulysses Manson Grastie; my grandfather was Samuel Bryan Grastie; my father was Lewis James Grastie. I would really appreciate any background on the family from Ulysses M. & beyond, especially any books on the Grastie/Grasty name & origin. I have heard several versions of it, and I've learned there were some Grasties in England in the 1600s, but nothing before then or between then & the Civil War. Thanks, Lewis James Grastie, Jr. (Jim)