I am a recent joinee of this list. I posted a request for help in early September and got zero responses, but I'll try again. My brick wall is my grandfather, Glen Earl Decker. Here is the info I have on him. On his marriage license to Flossie Carver (m 1925, divorced 1932) Glen lists his residence as Richmond, VA. He met my grandmother while serving in an Army Transportation Unit in Florida. They had 2 children, Vivian Decker, b 1926, and Glen Earl Decker, Jr, b 1928 (died 1962 no issue, served in the Air Force). We've searched Army records for my grandfather, but his records were in St Louis and burned up. On my mother's birth certificate his age is given as 36, so that would put him as being born in 1890. At one time he worked as a fireman in Volusia County, FL, but we can't find any record of that either. He didn't have a Social Security Number. My mother has been looking for her father for years. She doesn't know if he remarried or what happened to him. She would dearly love to reconnect with anyone from her father's family. Before when I queried the list, I asked for anyone that might know about his sister Bertha Decker Taylor who also lived in Richmond. I don't know if the family originated from Richmond. However, it would seem that there might be a connection there, so if anyone out there has been researching VA Deckers, please get in touch with me. Or maybe his line continued in Florida or somewhere else. If this sounds even vaguely familiar to anyone, I'd love to hear from you. Desperately need help. Maggie Toussaint -----Original Message----- From: Lainee Denton-Jones [mailto:lainee@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:26 AM To: DECKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DECKER] Roll Call --=======54D077BE======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-57333C8; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit What Deckers are you researching? What time frame? What are your brick walls? Let's try to get the answer ot some of these pressing questions and others by doing a roll call. In the Subject line of the email name your Decker ancestor along with time frame. Lainee Denton-Jones Decker List Administrator --=======54D077BE======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-57333C8 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.773 / Virus Database: 520 - Release Date: 10/5/2004 --=======54D077BE=======-- ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237