This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chavez Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2002.1 Message Board Post: Did you ever find your father? Who were his parents? My grt. grandmother was Virginia Chavez, born in CA in 1857. I doubt there is a connection, but then one never knows.