This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zl.2ADI/70.1 Message Board Post: Emilie: I am a grandson of Frithjof (Fritz) and Gracie Elvig, living in Houston, Texas. I was born in Lawrence, Kansas on January 11, 1959. Fritz was born August 21, 1900 in Little Falls, Minnesota and died on August 24, 1984 in Lawrence, Kansas. Gracie was born October 23, 1900 in Belle Plaine, Minnesota and died on January 16, 1966 in Lawrence, Kansas. The had three children: Elaine (who married James Connell and lives in San Francisco), John (my father, who married Ruth Ann Robertson from Topeka and who live in Houston in the same neighborhood with us), and Elizabeth (Libby, who married David Shinn and lives in Kansas City, Missouri). I also can fill you in on details of grandchildren and a little more upstream, if necessary. Let me know your relationship to them and if you have any information upstream of your side of the family. I do know Gracie's mother was Elizabeth Duffy, and I have some information about her (Elizabeth's) parents but not much. Hope to hear f! rom you. Mark