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/7aB.2ACEAE/4937.3 Message Board Post: There's a short piece about Roscoe in the Happy Valley history book available online: http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=579926 The 1900 Census data confirms the information about his adoption: Seward, Seward Co., Nebraska Pelkey, Frank, Head, b. August 1855, age 44, married, 20 years, b. Vermont, father b. Canada-French, mother b. Massachusetts, blacksmith Pelkey, Nellie, Wife, b. June 1845, age 54, married, 20 years, 1 child born, 0 children living, b. Illinois, parents b. Pennsylvania Pelkey, Roscoe, Adpt Son, b. October 1893, age 6, single, b. Nebraska, father b. Unknown, mother b. Michigan, at school In 1911, he is on his own in Moose Jaw District, Saskatchewan. www.automatedgenealogy.com