This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Valentine, Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nNABAIB/4169.1.1 Message Board Post: Did you try Asa instead of Ira? Give me the info you have and I will check if it's just a typo. My ggfather was Asa Valentine and he is in many records, as Ira, as is his father. Sometimes it's Assa. People just could not spell back then and we have to play with the names. MY Asa's parents migraited to Mich. He was in the Drum and Bugle Corps. in the Civil War. Anything sound familiar?Ann