This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perkins, Williamson, Kievit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4143 Message Board Post: I have helped many people located info on their family on Rootsweb.com here in East Texas. I decided it was time I did a little research of my own on my Grandmmother and her family. So here goes. My grandmother was born Amber Joyce Perkins in 1918. I think her parents were Bert and Maude Perkins. She married a man by the name of Edwin "Red" Williamson in the 1930's in Grand Rapids, I think. She had five children that I know of. My mother, Donna Mae, my uncles, Ernest or Ernie, Gerome, and twin boys, who at birth were called Ronald and Donald. At a very young age the twins were given up, one of them died and some 50 years later the other twin, now know as Carl Beyne contacted my mother and was reunited with his family. After "Red" died, Amber Joyce Williamson married my father's father(my parents Leonard Lyman Kievit and Donna Mae Williamson were married in 1957) in 1963 to become Amber Joyce Perkins Williamson Kievit. My grandmother never talked about any of her family, so my facts are sketchy at best. I would very much like to know more about them. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Barbara