This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.sangamon/4552.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Linda, No connection to the Loynes or Trihey families, was just offering to help, if I could. Interested in the Herman Todt family because my dad and his two youngest siblings lived with that family for a few years after my grandmother died in 1914. My grandfather was a coal miner, and couldn't take care of the eleven remaining children after her death, so the youngest were taken in as foster children. The 1920 census record lists my dad as an orphan living with the Todt's. He ran away to Chicago, to find his sister, not long after that census, to the best of my knowledge. It's a piece of my dad's childhood that I'm curious about, hence the posting. When my dad was still alive, we used to return to Springfield and visit some of the Todt's that he remembered, but sadly, I don't remember any of their names. I was hoping actually, that maybe someone remembered stories about the time my dad and his siblings lived there, obviously, a long shot, as you would guess. Thanks for your resp! onse.