This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdQBAEB/288.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: hey pam, your birth certificate will tell you, your dad & mothers mainen name and with this you go to any federal archives (located in every state at the capital of the state/pull a census on your mother's mom---they have all states listed there...or your dad's father...try this..if you haven't already...also, if you have a couple of names, I can go to the federal and state archives here in georgia for you and pull somethings..and send it to you. whatever i pull i can scan on my scanner and send via of e-mail also. let me..christy