This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaffer/Phy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3hGBAEB/675.1 Message Board Post: I am researching the PHY surname. In the 1880 census, Randall Shaffer is listed as a grandson of Rudolph Phy. His mother is listed as Lydia S. Shaffer, one of Rudolph's daughters. They were from Chester, Pa. Paul Phy was Rudolphs father. He had a brother, Jesse George PHY who was my gggrandfather. Are you part of this line? If so, I have Paul's naturalization papers, and am anxious to share with his decendants. No father is listed, so I am assuming that he may have died during the Civil War.