This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/igB.2ACE/2388.1.1 Message Board Post: yes!!!!!!!my great grandfather was william preston and my grandfather was Robert Franklin Conken. do you have any of the birth certificates or any real proof of our line? I have records of a granddaughter of my grandfather but no proof of birth, death, etc. except for the marriage of my grandfather 3rd wife was my grandmother Laura Simmons. did any of our grandfathers or uncles serve in the civil war? thanks!!!!! Inez