This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/7aB.2ACEAE/2259.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The informant was her only surviving son, George Balardo. I agree that it must be misspelled. Her native language was German. What's interesting is that the 1930 U.S. census identifies her as being from Poland and her native language as German. But, George's daugher says she was Austrian - as Helen's death certificate indicates.