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/EEX.2ACIB/25.68.70.1.1 Message Board Post: I WAS BORN 14 DEC,35---STANLEY DUNBAR FORBES III, IN MARBLEHESD, MASS. MY DAD, SDF,JR, WAS ALSO BORN IN MARBLEHEAD, OCTOBER OF APPROX 1912. I DON'T KNOW THE BIRTHPLACE OR DATE OF MY GR.DAD, SDF. MY MOTHER, ANN DUDLEY THAYER, AND MY DAD DIVORCED IN 1938, AND SHE SUBSEQUENTLY MARRIED GEORGE NOBLE RICKER, BORN IN KIRKWOOD, MO., BUT RESIDENT OF MARBLEHEAD; THEY WERE MARRIED IN EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 05 APRIL,1941. GEORGE RICKER ADOPTED ME [AND MY SISTER, THAYER NMN FORBES] IN 1951, DROPPING THE ---DUNBAR---FROM MY NAME, AND ADDING THE RICKER. ALL MY FORBESES WERE EAST COAST-ERS, AS FAR AS I HAVE EVER LEARNED. SDF,JR [MY FATHER] REMARRIED AND MOVED TO BERKELEY, CA, AND HAD 3 SONS, ALEXANDER, NICHOLAS [NOW DECEASED], AND DANA. NONE HAS MARRIED, SO OUR FORBES-LINE ENDS THERE. CHEERS, STANLEY FORBES RICKER--------05 January, 2003 STAN RICKER MASTERING 228 FIRE OPAL ST. RIDGECREST, CA. 93555 www.rickermaster.com