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/3365 Message Board Post: Hi Appreciate your offer. I don't have any more information on him. My father-in-law was illegitimate. He was born in Oct. 1917 and John Mercer a soldier is listed as his father on his birth certificate. We weren't allowed to talk about it while he was alive so we have no more inforamtion than that.