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/QBC.2ACI/1166.1 Message Board Post: My mother's maiden name was Von Derau (some spell it Vonderau). Would like to know what your connection is to that name, and would appreciate any info you have. My grandfather's name was Ralph Anthony Von Derau, born 1894, he was a Captain in the Army Air Corps and was killed in 1939 in an airplane accident coming home from the Pentagon. My branch migrated from Pennsylvania to Sidney Ohio.