Howdy! I just joined this list too. My father is Charles Edward Bradley, b. 1912 Rochester NY, currently living in Daytona Beach, FL with my mother, Renata. His father was Edward Filor Bradley, about whom we know almost absolutely nothing, except that he married my grandmother Flora Adella Newberry in Rochester, had parents who lived someplace in Rochester, and was drafted but did not serve in WWI (was at Fort Dix). In 1919 or so he took the family to Akron and Cleveland Ohio, but my grandmother and the children returned to Rochester a couple of years later without him. His whereabouts are unknown after that. My father can't even tell me when and where he died, except that it was after my grandmother's death in 1931. And I don't think he cares to remember -- Edward wasn't the idea husband and father, apparently. Finding info on Edward Filor Bradley has been nearly a dead end. The draft records for WWI are incomplete, so I can't even be sure the couple of EBs on those lists are he. I've written for his draft info and the marriage certificate. It's the only hope I have of finding out anything! My father had a brother, Alfred Filor Bradley, b. 1914 d. 1988 Rochester. Alfred married two or three times, but I only know of his last family, wife Loretta and children Eva and Carl (both probably around age 35-40). They live in Rochester. I suspect that Edward might have another family someplace in Ohio (you never know). My dad claims that my grandfather's family came from Ireland and that they were Protestants. However, we don't know this for sure. Flora Adella Newberry descended from the Nicholas Knapp lineage (arrived on these shores in 1630) and it was clear that my great grandfather, Charles Knapp Newberry, was not happy about the union. However, there's that middle name Filor (or Filer) which is another one of those old colonial America names -- so I don't know. At this point I've pursued everything I could pursue on the 'net, and I just have to wait until those vital records arrive in my mailbox. In the meantime, greetings to all you other Bradleys out there! Candice Bradley (married to Daniel Byrne, mother of Mark, John and Camille Byrne) Appleton, WI PS I apologise for the formatting problem last time.