This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBB.2ACI/1452.1 Message Board Post: Hello, I am going to assume you are very new to genealogy and I am going to ask you to return to your original query and to add in some additional information which could possibly help myself or others to help you. The more you can provide, the more likely someone will be able to help you. First, you have posted this query in Leslie Co. Is that because that is where you were born?? If so, please provide your birth date and county of birth. In that way, some sort of time line can be established for your family. Did you have brothers and sisters? If so, when and where were they born? What is the age of your mother? Where was she born? Is it that you do not know your father or know who he was? You do not provide the name. I am not sure what your legal surname is. Was is BIRD or REDBIRD or two words with RED BIRD being a two-word surname or what? This Kermit (your maternal grandfather) you speak of, approx. what would have been his age and did he also live in Leslie Co? If not, where? Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA