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/kEB.2ACI/378.1 Message Board Post: I am not sure that this will be any help considering that I am in the same boat you are in. My father passed four years ago and the Stansbury name from what I know was from Germany, they went to Holland to escape persecution, and then came to Maryland centuries ago. If it helps my fathers name was Dalton Anthony Stansbury Jr. and he was born around Welch, LA. This is all I can help with sorry. Kristi S Stansbury