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/DGC.2ACI/1396.3 Message Board Post: I am just starting to look into my background. I am Susan Elizabeth (Schlafke) Varner. My father was Howard Willis Schlafke. His father was William Schlafke. His father was Henry Otto Schlafke. We were settled in Jewell, Iowa.