This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaffer, Shafer, Shaefer, New Mexico, Ohio, PA Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3hGBAEB/1392 Message Board Post: Another name came to me and I did some checking and found Merle Shaffer b 1893-1969, found him in New Mexico. Usually I don't stray frar from Ohio and close states, but remember a story once told to me by my Mother. I never could remember if she told me how to spell this given name, but did tell me that an Uncle of her's had gone west and that she would hear from him one day. So far as I know, she never did, but talked of it all her life. So now I wonder with the year, if this might be he, brother of my Grandmother Eurilla Eolin Shafer, Shaffer b 1881. With information sent me, the name was spelled differently and may have been a guess, some of it was said to be. Finally last night (morning) this occurred to me. I did some checking but with the date all Family Search had was Social Security Death Record. Of course Elizabeth was a common given name, so I never tried to see if my Grandmother had a sister by that name. Grandma did name a daughter Wilma Elizabeth, b 1912, and a daughter Doris with the middle name Myrl. Sounds close doesn't it. As I was told there was an Edger in the family, I found a cousin with the middle name Edgar but haven't found anyone of that name connected. Could this also be a siblings of my Grandmother or her Father's name???? Mom also told me her brother's name was Herman, but the son of this person said his Father's name was Hiram, and I would think he would know having his Father's records. I just called him Uncle Bud, he had a wooden leg from a motorcycle accident. Sure hope I don't drive this board crazy. I am getting desperate and want to find my Grandmother's family. For those of you that haven't seen my many messages, I don't know the given names of my Grandmother parents, be it Shafer, Shaffer, of Shaefer, etc for their last name. I do have a picture and one of Grandma too. Never met her, gone before I was born. Never met a Shaffer in my whole life, and that sure did seem odd. I find it difficult to believe Grandma didn't have any siblings. Grandma had 7 or 8 children herself. Help, I am getting too old to remember much more.