This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: curtis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TmQ.2ACIB/318.962 Message Board Post: Robert, would you know if John Leroy Curtis was born around 1893, if so I think he is my grandfather.Do you know if by chance he ever was a cook for the railroad in Colorado in the 1920's? My dad died in 1953 and I would like to know who my family was and is on his side. On my fathers birth certificare it says Roy Curtis, born in Mo., and he was born in 1893.