In a message dated 10/30/2006 8:24:29 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, flavia@infionline.net writes: Thanks for the information.....I am curious about it starting with a Samuel Chapman - mine says Wales father was Joseph, but unproven. The chap who did most of the early work passed away at an early age, not leaving info as to how he arrived at Joseph. My information came from the Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle Co., IL, Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1886, page 513. Roger