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/HBRBAIB/1378 Message Board Post: Can anyone tell me who the parents of Joseph W Sweet was? Joseph W Sweet was born in New York c. 1817 and died in MI after 1880. He is the father of Chester b.1842 in MI, as found in the 1850 census. Chester was the father of Ira Sweet listed on the DNA charts. They came to Michigan at the same time my 3rd Great Grandfather, Peleg Sweet, came to Michigan c.1843/44. Celina