This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SRB.2ACE/1067.1133.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information. Any clue as to why the Fay's "adopted" Albert? Was it a legal adoption or did they just take him to live with them? Since he was from Ohio what was the connection? About 1870 the Joseph B. FAY family "took in" my Grandmother and went to KA. She was 5 yrs old. She lived with them and their daughter and son inlaw in Topeka, KA.. They never gave her their name. Was hoping by tracing Whitney's descendents, I may find out a little more. It took me awhile to find your message so I could reply. Thanks, Martha Soltesz