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/DcB.2ACE/3837.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kristen, Check out this site on the Derk family that I recently found: http://terisha4.tripod.com/keelergensite/id24.html I found this while using Google and searching for the Derk surname. I suspect there is a connection. The Derks in the Shamokin area seem to have all come from Berks Co. Pa. prior to the 1820's. I found a number of hits for Derk by using Google. Seems many of the Derks along with my Roberts family are buried in the Shamokin Cemetery. I visit there occasionally since the trip from Shillington to Shamokin is only a little over an hour. I plan to go up again within the next two weeks to check out some microfilm in the Shamokin Library. Dave