This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Patterson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YVW.2ACEB/3754.2 Message Board Post: My grandfather was borne in Greene County, IL on 16 August 1898 with a given name of Charles Dailey Patterson. I cannot find anything in the birth records in Greene County IL to go any further with my search. His social security number was 327-07-9764. He was a World War I veteran, but I cannot get the records from St. Louis to help me either. Do you know anything?