I have looked in Rootsweb and found nothing. Have you found anything in FamilySearch.org or census-online.com? If you look in the links listed under the censuses, you may find information you never knew. I used this and found my great-grandfather had been married four times, widowed once and divorced twice, and I was only told he was married twice, maybe three times at the most. In Rootsweb, I found his grandson - a relative I didn't know I had. If you cannot afford to join Ancestry.com or other pay-membership genealogy record site, some libraries subscribe to it and you may be able to link to the information either from the library or at home (I haven't figured out how that works but will). I am sure these pay sites *may* have prison rosters. Do you know what facility your father was in? I have been fortunate to know my parents and basically where I come from (especially my Gibsons and Logans). But I have had some trouble finding out about my mother's side of the family. I have been interested in that side of the family, because of my mixed (so far white and NA) heritage and all that it includes. That mystery is slowly unraveling, and the researchers in that side of the family are working on it. It also helps if you have fellow genealogists in your family. HTH, Anita Gibson Bingamon At 08:57 AM 1/4/2007, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Gibson/Davis >Classification: queries > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.gibson/5267/mb.ashx > >Message Board Post: > >My father's name was Robert Philate Gibson and also known as Robert >Davis. He was born about 1910. Although they were not married, my mother >had my brother and I by him. I was born in 1941. My father robbed banks >in Modesto CA and was sent to Folsom prison. He was killed there in a >prison fight. >His mother's name was Ruth. She was born in Oakland, CA in 1885, Dec. >5. She had a brother named Charles. I know the address of the house she >was born in but not her last name. I contacted the city of Oakland, Ca. >and found no help there. I have searched for years to find info on my >father and grandmother to no avail. I also know my father had another son >around my age named Robert Verlin or Philate. I sure would welcome >suggestions. HELP!! > >To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] >Quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the >rest of any other messages from your reply. >CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE to the content of your reply. >~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ >Links to search and browse the archives, or unsub/sub, are at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/GIBSON.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.5/616 - Release Date: 1/4/2007 1:34 PM