To find your father or his offspring, you could have a brother or ? take a DNA test. That would give you links to hundreds of males from many different countries. If you took one, there could be male dna in there too. Familytreedna.com Or you could try the Mormon sites Catt On Mon 07/10/13 3:00 AM , [email protected] sent: > > > > > PLEASE NOTE > > > > When replying to a digest message, please quote only the specific portion > or message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from > your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it > coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > > > ------------------------------- > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. USS Ohio and Jack Surmann (Maisie Egger) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 20:12:21 -0700 > > From: "Maisie Egger" ca > [email protected]> > Subject: [Lanark] USS Ohio and Jack Surmann > > To: [email protected] > otsweb.com> > Message-ID: [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > Once more the Lanark list has produced some answers for me. > > > > Admittedly I am the absolutely worst researcher, and so it continues to be > an eye-opener when someone unearths information for me. > > > Jo Ann Croft found the list of crew members on the USS Ohio, 1907, on which > my husband?s father served with Teddy Roosevelt?s Great White Fleet. There > was a lot of other interesting information about which countries the ships > visited, pictures. etc. > > > Jo Ann could not find anything on Jack Surmann, however, the cousin ?Pop? > was to supposed to have had a fight with. I did find a contact e-mail > address and have written to see if there is a database that can be checked > for Jack Surmann. > > > If we can get this fellow where he belongs, then I have another major brick > wall to knock down to find out who the parents were of my > great-grandfather, William Clint, Kirkcudbrightshire. If his father is the > dastardly rascal who seeded a few out of wedlock, then that will surely add > to the colour of the family narrative. > > > How anyone is just content with basic stats mystifies me as the hunt for > details is what makes genealogy so interesting. > > > Thanks again to Jo Ann for her extra help. > > > > Maisie > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > To contact the LANARK list administrator, send an email to > > LAN > [email protected] > > > To post a message to the LANARK mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > otsweb.com. > > > __________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to L > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > > > > End of LANARK Digest, Vol 8, Issue 165 > > ************************************** > > > > > >