This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beam Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gh.2ADI/569.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Larry, thanks for the response. Nancy Beam's father and my father were brothers. She had a sister Barbara who is deceased and brothers John and Paul Jim Beam. I have them and their offspring in my family tree. I grew up in Roann but have lived in Fort Wayne since the sixties. I am back to my great great grandfather George W. Beam who was born in l811 in Pennsylvania. George W. Beam apparently could not read or write. I am having trouble breaking through earlier. To view the family tree go to the Darke County, Ohio, genealogy website and look at the tree. On my grandmothers side on one branch I am back to the fifteen hundreds. Dick Beam