This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHYTE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fh.2ADI/5905 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was Charles Lewis Whyte, born in Princeton IL, on 17 Oct 1875. He was supposedly adopted by and/or took name of Ananias Whyte who then took the family to Iowa from IL. 1880 Census shows Charles as "about 6 years of age" and does not list birthplace of his parents. Charles then married Ella Eudora Garlick, possibly in WI and then moved to Mankato MN. Charles worked for the Chicago Railroad in Mankato. I just received a copy of his death certificate and lists the parents as unknown. Can anybody help or give info on finding who Charles decended from by blood? I tried the Orphan Train with no luck.