This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.foust/428.3.1.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks Lee. I'll be in touch by email, probably tomorrow. You've made my friend very happy just to get him back to Jacob Foust, his great-great-grandfather. We had traced Jacob's son Samuel Foust back to Wells County, Indiana previously and knew the family came from Ohio and before that from PA. Samuel was born there in 1868, married there in 1891 and he shows up in the census there from 1900 to 1930. To go a little further back to Pennsylvania, let alone back to Germany is more than we both had hoped for. He's not very computer literate by the way and I had had some experience tracing my families online, so that's how I came to get involved in this. I'll keep him posted on what we come up with and he may want to contact you directly at some point. Thanks