This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fink-Goodell-Stein Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/264.628.630.639.642.3.1.2.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: "I am cc'ing Helene Kline Mooty who compiled a book, "The Descendants and Ancestors of Andrew Wellington Fink & Susan Henrietta Beadle". She is the expert so I'll put down what I have from her book and work and she can correct anything I have wrong or that is incomplete. Helene and I are Fink second cousins" I would like to purchase the book mentioned above and would like to exchange info with you both. I got my info from Dorothy C. Burt; a very nice Benton Co. Gen. Soc. Volunteer. I have very little info as I am just beginning my search. I am doing this research for my son-in-law, Randy Goodell, his mother Karen Marie Fink Goodell, died when he was quite young. Due to a rift between the Goodell's and the Fink's, Randy knew very little about his mother. In fact he has no pictures of any of the Fink's, he only had a very small picture of his mother and when they moved to the state of Washington that was lost. His Grandparents and many of his other Fink ancestors are buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Philomath, Benton, Oregon. Thanks to other genealogists I have found quite a bit about the family. I do not have much proof of the validity of the info that I do have. But a lot of it does match up with the census records as far as locales and migration of the Fink family. I am compiling as much info into a notebook with a "more to come" promise for Christmas. They live in the Seattle area and I am going out there for the holidays. If the weather is fit we hope to go to Benton County, if not now maybe in the spring. Randy had given up on finding any info about his family and did not even speak of them very often. Then when he saw how much I had on my daughter's family, he began to hint that he would like to know about his own. Stanley and Edith Fink are his grandparents and I would really like to find more about them and maybe locate someone with pictures of them. I am sorry this is so long, but I wanted you to know why the book that was mentioned above might be the key I need. At this point anything is more than what we have already. Thank you for your reply and your info. Please let me know if it is possible to get a copy of the "Fink" book and where I might contact more Fink relatives of Randy's. Shirley, in Henrietta Texas shirleygrantfarrel@sbcglobal.net