Hi Regency350-(who ever you are)! I am not sure where you are looking and not finding anything. Genealogy is nothing, but, detective work! You need to put your Sherlock hat on! You might wish to ask your local librarian if there is a class being taught in your town. Assuming there is, take it! Ask your librarian if there is a genealogical society in your town. Assuming there is one, join it! You might see if your library has a book that you can borrow on how to begin genealogical research. If they do not have one you can borrow, I sell genealogical books in my store at http://barnettesbooks.com . I have several good ones. Unpuzzling Your Past by Croom (about $15) Researchers guide To American Genealogy by Greenwood. (about $30) There is a new on by Lou Szucs, too. I have it in the store, but forgot the title. (about $15) Have you tried the US Census records? If you do not have them in a library where you live you can order them from an LDS (Mormon) Family History Center. If the people you seek were not alive in 1920 this step is premature. Birth records will be in the county and state where the birth occurred. Death certificates will be filed in the county and state where the event occurred. Divorce records will be filed in the county where the divorce occurred. If your grandmother is alive you can ask her or a sibling of hers if they are alive about the situation. If your grandmother was divorced, there will be a record in the county of the divorce. There might be a record of or a reference to the divorce in the county where she moved. You grandmother's birth and death certificate (if she is dead) should have the names of her parents on it. Her obituary should have the names of any surviving siblings and children. You should be able to contact them by asking of their whereabouts from other relatives or doing searches on the Internet. Hope this gives you some ideas. Good Luck, MIC Mic Barnette writes a genealogy column in the Houston Chronicle. Read it at http://barnettesbooks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:29 PM Subject: Re: BARNETT-D Digest V00 #96 > OK, to begin, there are several ways to spell the name in question. Barnet- > is Jewish, Barnett- is English, Barnette- is French. This certainly gave me > something to think about, and perhaps it will some of the namesake's out in > Cyberspace. > > I have been searching for any information on my grandparents for a very long > time and find nothing on my grandmother. Her name was Mary Ellen Barnett, or > one of the other spellings. Nor have I found anything on my grandfather > Francis Marion Sutton. I do know they lived in Doniphan,Ripley Co, Mo. also > in Poplar Bluff, Mo Butler, CO. My mother, their daughter was born in > Kennett, Dunklin CO... Mo. but that is all I can find. > > My grandparents divorced, my mother and grandmother then moved to Poplar > Bluff, Butler Co. to a boarding house where my soon to be mother met and > married my soon to be father. Who's mother Cora Lee Lail, Prickett owned the > boarding house. > > Is there anyone out there that might be able to connect with this family?. > Please help if you can. > > [email protected] >