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/JWGBAEB/1083.2.1.1 Message Board Post: SANDRA, thanks and best wishes. You probably have a death certificate and obit available on JOHN SELLERS 1862/3 IL and maybe best proof. John SELLERS 1862/63 IL seems to be here in the 1900 thro 1920 Cook Co, IL census. with parents born GERMANY or 1920 shows IL?? reread. Have you done an 1880 search on him? I couldn't Prove him from your info = need brother/sister, etc OR info from his obit? YOUR FAMILY info = phone/write/advise ALSO, others may need the children of your WILLIS SELLERS = names, ages and who married and went where = PLEASE SEND. marie, iowa