This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XSB.2ACE/576.984.1786 Message Board Post: I am the granddaughter of Mae Adam & William Crawford Shoaf. My parents are Jerry Cecil & Margaret Crain Shoaf. I am Leah Marie Shoaf Frederic. I have 3 siblings: Julia Cheryl, Jerry Cecil II & Timothy Scott. I have been recently trying to help my Dad locate a birth certificate for him & it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. My Dad told me that Grandpa Shoaf would file the certificates the next time he went to town for work. The N.C. vital statics shows the last child born to my grandparents in N.C. was Joseph on 1/25/1940. My Dad has always known his birthday to be 1/22/1941. We have received school records that show his birthday as 1/25/1942 and that he was born in Salsbury, N.C. but the county is Roanoke County in Virginia. So I'm now searching to see if maybe Grandpa Shoaf had filed his birth in Roanoke County, it is not that far from Rowen County where Salsbury is located. Grandpa did carpentry work on alot of military bases at that time & would travel alot. Glen Shoaf was born two years after my Dad & he was born in Georgia, then Johnny who was born in Florida. There were 14 kids total. If any of you have any information or if your parents can remember ! anything that would help us find his information it would be greatly appreciated. I would love to hear from any "ancestors."