Hello This is an inquiry to help find information about this family's medical history due to a high incidence of cancers. Please contact glennysmercer@hotmail.com if you have any information to help her with the query attached here. Since I also did a check of the Boston Globe archives, the SSDI and the 1920 census and did not find any obvious clues or connections, it seems likely that Glennys needs to find someone who has more information about this family in the states to pinpoint dates and locations. Thank you for any help you might be able to provide - Message from Glennys Mercer Subject: seeking lost relative for medical reasons Due to a very high occurence of cancers in my family genetic studies were recently carried out by Dr. Jane Green, Medical Genetics, at the Health Science Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland. The results of the study identifies my family as having HNPCC (Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer). As you can imagine this study involved a lot of time contacting relatives and gathering records for Dr. Green in her study. My father's sister left Newfoundland at an early age(12-13) for the Boston states to presumably "go in service". She did keep in touch with her sisters over the years but never returned to Newfoundland. There is reason to think that she may have died of gallbladder cancer (which is quite rare) but which my brother recently died from at age 58. Dr. Green tells me that if indeed this is true it would be quite significant in the ongoing study of my family's medical history. Could you please advise me on how I might locate this information. I have tried numerous sites on the Internet with no success and I have written numerous hospitals in the Boston area hoping to locate some records on her but have been unsuccessful here as well. My Aunt's name is Teresa Annie Terrio (maiden name Collins) DOB:02 Jan 1900 Parents: William Collins & Charlotte Jewer Born in Spaniard's Bay, NF. Married to William Terrio Last known to be living in June/1963 Sincerely glennysmercer@hotmail.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com