This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Derk Gessner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DcB.2ACE/3837.1 Message Board Post: My great-grandmother was Clara Derk who married John Gessner. I'm not sure where her family was from, though John was from the Shamokin Area. Somewhere I had seen that Clara's father was a Jared Derk. She was born in 1879. Maybe we have a connection?