This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mc Laughlin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VFB.2ACI/4189.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi again.....They may not be related but I failed to say that Charles was born back east...I believe that it was Mass. Like I said his father was ambassador to Mexico and worked out of Washington DC....Charles did not come to California until the 1950's or later.