This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Godat Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/1384.1607.2451.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I may be able to help someone in their Godat family search by supplying some additional names and dates from a few antique poetry books passed around among my Godat family members showing their signatures and dates (specifically Mary L. Godat of Galena, Illinois, and later of Freeport, Illinois, and Charles W. Godat). My mother was a 'Godat girl' (daughter of Andrew L. Godat of Crystal City, Missouri/granddaughter of Charles 'Civil War' Godat). If interested in what information I have, feel free to email me.