This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dowell, VanDyke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AST.2ACEB/2.4.7.246 Message Board Post: I hope you can help me. I'm searching for any info anyone may have on anyone up to and including my grandfather Clyde Dowell who died in an industrial accident 17 days before my father (Girard) Vincent Dowell was born. He married Beatrice Van Dyke and they also had 3 other children-Gloria Dowell, Gregory Dowell, and Michael Dowell. Beatrice died in 1991/1992? I don't remember. I would also like to know if anyone has any info on my grandmother and her family (Van Dyke's). I don't know where any are originally from. I do know there is some Dutch and some Irish(maybe English). If anyone can help, please email me rubys713@hotmail.com Thanks!