This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOOD, CASSEL, RAITZ, THOMPSON, DeLONG Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/1296.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Carol, Thanks for the clarification of Mary Belle THOMPSON, the information on ROONEY came from Ray CASSEL and I've made the correction. My Dad grew up with CASSELs and ROONEYs and says there are many connections -- we have a few pictures, but I've come up with little evidence to date. One of the other names in our family is RAITZ, from Fountain City, Buffalo Co, Wisconsin. Forest CASSEL WOOD married Maybelle RAITZ in 1927 after the death of his first wife (Louisa DeLONG). We've found a great deal of information about the RAITZ family. The George CASSEL living with Walter and Maria WOOD in the 1870 Census is George Grabel CASSEL, son of Jacob G CASSEL and future husband of Mary Belle THOMPSON. Walter WOOD is George WOOD's brother. George was married to Eliza CASSEL and they adopted my grandfather Forest Henry CASSEL WOOD (his birth mother was Alice CASSEL). In 1903 Walter WOOD and Eliza CASSEL WOOD married when their spouses both died. I'ts really a convuluted story and with each piece of the puzzle I'm finding it to get even more complicated ... but it's great fun to put it together! Kathy