This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5MZ.2ACEB/1059 Message Board Post: Here's hoping that someone can finally help me bust through this brickwall! My step grandfather was William Meredith "Billy" Goff (1904 - 1977). He said he was born in Guthrie, KY though I've never found any documented proof for this. After year's of fruitless searching I have finally discovered that he gave the wrong name for his father ... for whatever reason ... though he did have the basic facts of his death correct. After finally trying some unusual "hunt and peck" research methods I discovered that his father's real name was William Alexander Goff and that he died in 1917 during World War One. Now to connect this William Alexander Goff into the Goff family at large. The only other "fact" that I know of William A. Goff is that besides my step grandfather, there was a daughter named Margruett E. Goff and that at the time of their father's death the children are listed as living in Nashville, TN ... although there mother is not listed as next of kin for some reason. I have yet to locate this family on any census despite years of looking. <sigh> Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Kathy