This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lylah160 Surnames: Sackett Williams Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sackett/293.2.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for the clarification on the letter and when it was written. I have searched many newspapers for birth announcements and found very little. I have tried to find a marriage between any Sackett and Williams and found a few but no ties yet. I feel like I may even need to search Cananadian records with more viger. I would love to find the connection, and as many times as my gr-grandmother, changed the name she was using, i may have to look for name changes in the records (i.e. Leah M Roe, May Roe, Mae Sackett, Leah M Sackett)such as Lucy or Linda to find more threads to this puzzle. Like I stated there may have been a connection to someone in Canada, like a marriage that took one of the daughters over the boarder and than back across home to grandma in later years. It is believed in our family, that Leah stated Lucian may of been born out of wed lock. At the time of his birth the Civil War was ending and many people may of lost their lives from that, it is a bit of a stretch, but not impossible. I have searched war records as well for many Sackett's. I fear that Lucian didn't know much about his father, at one point the fact that his father was born in France comes up and is different and listed as New York (which could of been a typo). His mother was stated to of been born in New York which fits both of the girls Almeda and Caroline. If you have anything else, please pass it along. Or if you have any interesting places to search, that would be great as well. Thank you so much, Lyla Marie Sackett Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.