This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/4318/RGCBAEB/305.707.719.742.744 Message Board Post: trying to trace backwards. as far back as i can go right now is my gfather thomas fauver. the family lived around star tannery va. we got the family name from his mother as his father was native american and i dont know if he was on the birth cert. i live in baltimore md. where are you from? how far do the fauvers stretch out? don