This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Durbin, Miller, Beeseck, Besseck, Renz, Clemens, Chesser, McWhorter, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gYI.2ACEB/188.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi : My gg. grandparents were Sylvia Chesser & Joseph Renz. Caroline Belgium or ( Bell ) Clemens -PA and William Vincent Chesser -WV were my ggg. grandparents. John Chesser and Ann Eliza McWhorter were my gggg. grandparents. My ggg. grandmother Caroline Belgium Clemens might be William Vincent Chesser's second wife-which would explain why M. Myers was not listed as a widow. I have nothing beyond John Chesser (have to go in european records perhaps), but I have the McWhorter's to the 1724 Delaware colonies. Here's the tricky part. My ggg. grandmother Caroline Belgium Clemens was maybe adopted into the Clemen's family by a George Clemens & his wife (name?). What I do have is several tin-types of Caroline as an older woman, one of Caroline as a teenager standing next to an older woman (her adopted mother???) who is very pale compared to my ggg. grandmother, & a large oval portrait orf her in a tortiseshell frame. I also have one of her victorian-era jackets-my grandmothers were all pack rats. My family was in PA & WV & TN for centuries & beyind-however, I'm a first generation Californian. Does anything ring a bell with anyone? Nanette Durbin <turtur@sbcglobal.net>