Hi Judy, Here are some Hornbeck pages to get you started, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/hsrc/home.htm http://www.3-cities.com/~gjansen/westfall.htm#HORNBECK http://members.aol.com/dovelion/genealogy/cutright.htm#Links http://www.swcp.com/~dhickman/articles/hornbek.html http://www.gengateway.com/listings/sites/1028.html http://www.s-hornbeck.com/ http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/u/t/John-O-Cutright/index.html http://www.webpan.com/doutberg/genealog.y/gedcom/ind0082.htm I've been working on this surname for the last 3 days, thanks to a nice genealogical boost from Mary Ann Radtke. My Logan County link to Hornbeck looks like this: The first link needs certification of some sort, I have a 10 year age difference in my only 2 references to Sarah. I don't like loose ends but it's an interesting and well documented family anyway. Sarah E. Gassaway married Nicholas W Howe = Ross Co., OH (my GG grandparents) moved to Lake Fork Sarah's parents: Sarah Cutright m. Thomas Gassaway = born Ross Co., OH, d. McLean Co., IL 2 Gas[s]aways married 2 Cutrights Sarah Cutright's parents: William Cutright born Bourbon, KY & Hannah Neff Ross Co., OH 3 Neffs married 3 Cutrights William's parents: John Cutright and Elizabeth Subre John Cutright's parents: Kendrick Kortreck/Cutright & Elizabeth Hornbeck 3 Hornbecks married 3 Cutrights Elizabeth's parents: Johannes Hornbeck b. 1685 Hurley NY; died Hampshire Co., VA wife: Orseltje(Urseltje) Westbroek/Westbrook, born Kingston, Ulster, NY back a couple more generations and you arrive at Van Hoornbeecke Hope this gets you going. I'm sure you'll find the desenting opinions, as to the sources of these families, along the way. Penny (Richner) Husler juwaph@excite.com wrote: > I am searching for my Hornbeck roots and have come to a dead end. Hopefully > someone will be able to help. My grandfather was born in Atlanta, Il > 7/2/1884 named Walter Franklin Hornbeck. His parents were W.W. or Wallace > Winslow (not sure) HOrnbeck and Matilda Ann Sullivan. they had six other > chidren also, Louis, Bertha, Hormer, Leslie, Ruby and Holton. If anyone can > help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Judy in SC