This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0IB.2ACE/291.2 Message Board Post: ADAM. THIS IS ME AGAIN. MY FAMILY DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY GRANDFATHER MCINVALE. HIS NAMED WAS JOSEPH WILLIAM MCINVALE. HE CAME FROM ALABAMA (BIRMINGHAM) WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG WITH NO FAMILY. HE CAME BY TRAIN AND GOT OFF ON OLIVE BRANCH, MS. WHICH IS IN DESOTO COUNTY AND MARRIED JULIA LAUGHTER. ALL WE KNOW SOMETHING HAPPEN TO HIS PARENTS AND HE HAD A HALF SISTER WAS RAISING HIM WHEN HE LEFT BIRMINGHAM. DON"T KNOW HALF SISTERS NAME. MY FAMILY HAS BEEN ON THE COMPUTER TRYING TO SEE IF ANYONE KNEW OF HIM. BUT NO LUCK SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE THAT ARE MCINVALE"S CAN"T FIND OUT WHO THIER ANCESTERS WAS. IF YOU HAVE ANT INFO ABOUT MCINVALE"S PLEASE LET ME KNOW. HE WAS BORN IN FEB. 1876. DIED APRIL 1957. SINCERLY JEAN