This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHIREY, SCHMIDT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/1975.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you!! Thank you!!! Ever so very much! It's typical of these Deutsch folks using their "middle" names which was done here in PA too by many, many of the relatives!! To further confuse a person they too most all had "nicknames!" It's amazing how persistance pays off after hunting for years for this family the "jigsaw" pieces are coming together! Another contact called the Cemetery and informed me there is a Marion SCHMIDT buried with she & Gustave SCHMIDT. She died young and is surely a daughter. It seems these SHIREY'S surely did move around!!!! Now I see Lillian (SHIREY) JOHNSON, is in Macon City, MO. and HIRAM SHIREY, her brother in Seattle, Washington, which figures for his father, Solomon M. SHIREY, had been in a Military Home in Orting, Washington, at one time. A relative & new contact in CA thought the obituaries of Hiram SHIREY were published when he'd died. His SS records show he died in Laton, Fresno Co. CA. It appears her sister, Blanche O. SHIREY, died then before 1941, since she is not named. No one seems to know anything about her as to her marriage!