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/gYI.2ACEB/188.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John Chesser was born ab. 1821 in Washington County PA- I don't know who or where his parents or ancestors were...still searching. His son William Vincent Chesser, (still looking for other children) was born ab. 1853 Marshall county WV. W.V. Chesser's daughter, Sylvia Chesser was born Feb. 26 1880 in Ohio County WV. Sylvia was my great-great grandmother. She married Harry Joseph Renz who was from PA & they lived in PA as did my family for the next 3 generations...According to my great grandmother-Sylvia & Harry's daughter, Mabel, this is the root of some of my research problems...Harry Joseph Renz was a racist. Because Sylvia was part indian, he destroyed her indian paperwork and all of her family records so there would be no trace of his children's herritage. There could be a connection, unfortunately, I'm missing John Chesser's ancestors. Does anything ring a bell with you?