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/AUI.2ACIB/232.1 Message Board Post: For the benefit of other Chamberlain researchers, this individual's ancestral line of descent is Joseph William(12) Chamberlain, William Overman(11), William Newton(10), Elisha Frank(9), Asahel(8), Jonathan(7), Jonathan(6) Chamberlin, Peleg(5), William(4), Joseph(3), William(2), Henry(1) Chamberlin. He and his parents are listed in 1930 census records as follows (I haven't checked 1900-1920 census records): - 1930 Census, Zeeland City, Ottawa Co., MI, Joseph W. Chamberlain, p. ?, #182/187, 10 Apr 1930, #133 West Central Avenue, head, age 31, $28, married age 25, inspector - Ford/Food(?) Products, IN/IN/IN; Gerda, wife, married age 23, IL/DEN/DEN; Austin W., son, age 1 10/12, IN/IN/IL - 1930 Census, Richland, Greene Co., IN, William Chamberlain, p. ?, #71/74, 8 Apr 1930, head, age 57, age 24, foreman - section railroad, IN/IN/IN; Cora A., wife, age 51, married age 15, IN/KY/IN; Lois - Ab.(?), daughter, single, age 23, IN/IN/IN; Chester, son, single, age 18, IN/IN/IN; Maxine, dau., age 15, IN/IN/IN Joseph's known siblings: Florence, Charles, Lois, Chester, & Maxine. The SSDI lists Joseph Chamberlain, SSI #362-09-9791, issued MI, b. 3 Feb 1899, d. Mar 1980, residence at time of death: Zip Code 94504 (includes Grand Rapids, Standale and Walker, Kent Co., MI), which indicates that, though he evidently died in Goshen, IN according to your posting, he was residing in the Grand Rapids area. I know nothing about Joseph's descendants, other than that a son, Austin W., is listed in the census (above), and a son, Joseph W. Chamberlain, Jr., of Beaufort, SC, is one of our World Chamberlain Genealogical Society members, and a regular correspondant of mine. Please contact me via Email if you wish additional information about this family's ancestry, or to learn about other persons researching branches of this family. One of them, by the way, cited Washington Co., IN, Book H-5, p. 21, Birth Records, for a reported birth date for Joseph of 3 Aug 1902, which is evidently incorrect, I see.