This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fischer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YaW.2ACIB/1077.1 Message Board Post: I find the information about your DNA project interesting. Unfortunately, my Father was the end of the line of male Fischers here in Chicago IL. He and his brother only had daughters. My Grandfather John Fischer was born in 1900 and came to the US some time after from Romania. I can find no reference for this man or two relatives, Henry and Peter. I believe Peter was a brother and Henry may have been an uncle. John Fischer was active in the old A&P truckers union and Peter for many years worked as a bartender at a large hotel in downtown Chicago. Peter died early in an accident involving a bus. It has been said that the Fischer's in Romania were very wealthy in the later 1800's making money raising horses that were sold to the US Calvery. All was lost when Russia took over the area where they lived. If there is another place to post this information, I hope to find something more about this family.