This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Simpkins, Sommers, Butterfield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2AIBAIB/403 Message Board Post: Trying to help my boyfriend trace his family tree. This is what we have starting with my boyfriend and going backwords. 1. Steven Jack Simpkins, Jr, son of Steven Jack Simpkins And Cheryl Rupert. Steven and Cheryl have 2 sons, Steven, Jr and Jason. 2. Steven Jack Simpkins, Sr is the son of Charles Jack Simpkins and Gladys Hoskins. Charles and Gladys had 3 children, Steven , Sr George and Sally. 3. Charles Jack Simpkins is the son of Charles N Simpkins and Omma Sommers. Charles and Omma had 6 children; charles Jack, Virginia, Ina Jean, Phyllis Jane, William Thomas and David Dean. 4. Charles N. Simpkins is the son of Thomas Jefferson Simpkins and Clara Butterfield. Charles N and Clara had 6 children; Samuel Craig, Charles N, edith, Laura Made, David, and Minnie. If anyone can place any of one of these Simpkins in their family tree, please contact me at debbiecruce@hotmail.com. We have been looking for 10 years now and this is all we have come up with. We know that Charles N ran away from home after his father, Thomas hired him out to a neighbor, basically as a slave. That is why we have no other info on the family. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do know that Charles Jack was born in Indiana. Other than that we have no other geographical info.