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/RKT.2ACIB/1415.1.1 Message Board Post: Major Dodson of Illinois born 1744 in Virginia , was my ggg-grandfather . He was the son of Joseph Dodson of Va . In the Illinois marriage database you will find some of his sons and grandsons listed as Dodgsons . This is an incorrect spelling of their surnames .