This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sylvester and Laymon (Layman) in Ohio and France Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/321.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, Marilyn. I will put this in my Sylvester file and also forward it to my sister, Jan Thomas Beedle, who lives in the area where our family settled. It's hard to do a lot on on hands research when I live 1300 miles from the site where it all happened. At least the things we can trace. We don't have any records of where our great grandfather came from except word of mouth. I'm not sure what we think we know is at all accurate. Thanks again. If you hear anything about this so-called French ancestor of mine, I'd be happy to hear from you. June Thomas Davis, [email protected]