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/hgR.2ACIB/1791.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The problem is that I have no information on George at all. I first learned of him from a biography on my grandfather published in Idaho in 1902. Frank J. Decker was born in Jefferson county, Indiana on February 4, 1849. His father, George, was a machinist, born in France and at nineteen years of age he was head of a large shop. He patented the first shoe pegging machine and was also the patentee of several other valuable inventions. He married Judith, daughter of John and Eleanor Hall. She was born in Kentucky. The father died in 1839 and the mother in 1899. In the 1880 census, his father was born in France and his mother in Indiana. In the 1900 census, his father was born in France and his mother in Kentucky. The 1920 census reported his father born in France and speaking French and his mother from Kentucky. This is why I am searching as this is really all I have.