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/4555.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Trying to solve family mystery, especially for my dad, Ronald Robinson, who is elderly, and not doing well. His mom said there was a family secret, and since she passed in the early 70s, we may never know, but doing my darndest. She always said her name was Alberta Francis Berkschneider (not sure of spelling, could be bergschneider,brockschneider, but she always pronounced it with the "k" sound). On my fathers' birth certificate, though, it listed her as Alberta Sylvia Mary Beers (in my original post,I had it wrong, sorry). This may be a clue as to what the secret was. Was she married before my granddad, adopted, hiding Jewish ancestry? We know she was born in Missouri in the early 20s, and had a brother, Leonard Beers, and we think, a sister Donna. Her father may have been Bert Beers, born in Nebraska in 1883, mom, we think, is either, Clara M or Margaret C Beers, b. in Illinois in the 1880s. There are 2 other females listed in the 1930 census, not sure exactly who they are, but the names are Martha Hartman, b. in Germany, and Georgia Williams, born in Illinois. My grandmother was married to Raleigh Vestal Robinson, they lived in Calif. and maybe Louisiana, also was married to Lloyd Henry, and they lived in the Lubbock/Slayton Tx. area, and Clovis, N.M If anyone has any info./pictures/documents, etc. to help shed light on this, it would be so very appreciated. Thank you, Cynthia Fischelli