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/nAC.2ACI/813.817.835.837.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your reply. My great grandfather was Nelson Fairchilds. He was born around 1841, but perhaps not that exact year. He enlisted in the Civil War, listing his home as Whitehall, New York. Whitehall, apparently, is very near Willsboro. I am trying to find out who his parents were, so I can trace the lineage back. He spelled his name with an "s" (Fairchilds), and that is how it is spelled on his discharge papers. Could your Frederick be his brother, and your Nelson a nephew? Do you know anything about Frederick's parents or siblings? Thanks for your help Ron