This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sampson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/RGB.2ACI/211.1 Message Board Post: Stepanie, I don't know about the Cooking show. You can probably find out from the TV station there now, though. But as I was reading through the message boards, I happened to notice that Nancy's middle name was Ida. My grandfather's (George W. Sampson) first wife was named Ida A. Post. Is she by any chance a relative of hers? Norma (Sampson) Hammond I am a daughter of Etrel W. Sampson, son of George W. Sampson, son of Abraham (Abrom/Abram)Sampson, son of Ephriam Sampson, son of Jonathon Sampson (b. 1733), Them is where my family tree separates from all others because it say that Jonathon's father is Solomon and his father is Loyal. I believe that Abraham Loyal Sampson came to America using Abraham Samson. Then when he dissapeared from the records, he started using his first middle name, as a lot of the Sampson's are known to to to this day.