This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zike Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ABB.2ACE/200.220 Message Board Post: My grandfather was Ralph Zike, whose father was Arthur Zike, and the story was told -- thru the generations--that our gggreatgrandfather (we thought German) came to the US as a soldier to fight in the revolution and defected to stay in the states...there can't be too many Zikes who did this, can there?