This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newjersey.counties.salem/757.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Just beginning to make a few amateurish attempts to research my maternal line. But, yes I am a Jess descendant. My great-great grandfather [Adam Jess, b. 1831. d. 1907]was born in Salem County in 1831 and served in company K of the 24th New Jersey Volunteers. Adam and his wife, Harriet S., had the following children: John D. Jess [b. 1857]; Samuel Jess [b.1858]; Mary Jess [b. abt. 1862?]; Adam Jess [1867-1931]; Louisa Jess [1870-1927]; George Jess [b. abt. 1864?]; Levi Jess [1874-1927]; and Jenny or Virginia Jess [b. 1878, died ???]. Jenny or Virginia is my maternal great-grandmother. ADAM JESS is the brother of DAVID JESS. Their line, I know, extends to Zachariah Jess . . .