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/CY.2ADI/196.2 Message Board Post: I am writing to see if you have any information of the surname of Payton for California. To the best of my knowledge, my Grandfather was H. Payton (something like Harland, Harlan, or something like that), my father is/was (don't know) Harley Walter "Chuck" Payton. His mother was Helen. Don't know her middle name. Her maiden name was Urban, then Payton, then Morgan, and last Ponce. My father was born in Boise, Idaho in 1944, and his family moved to Riverside, California for a time when he was a child. I think he might have had a grandfather in Riverside. I would be interested to know if there is any genealogical information on my family. For most of his adult life my father lived in California. I was born in California.