Sorry I did not read your original message well enough to realize you had already given us the birthdate for your mother.Does her social security application give her birth place, some I have seen show that information. It will take two requests for the 1920 census index to find your people, one for NC and one for VA. I can do that but it will take me a couple of weeks since I have to order them - how about it for anyone who can access the index without ordering it - I am in Idaho and the entire 1920 census itself is here in my local archives but not the index - Can anybody lend a hand and make this a co-op effort? Agnes >"Agnes E. Cloninger" wrote: > >> give us a birthdate for your mother, someone may be able to check census >> records for you. >> >> Agnes Cloninger >> >> >Can anyone on the list help me. I'm trying to find out something about >> >my grandparents. My mother, their daughter, Mary Elisabeth Jonas b 1915 >> >is deceased. My grandparents names were ; >> >Minnie Reep and Dan M. Jonas >> >I just found out their names from my mother Social security Application. >> >Mother left some old photos taken in Vale, Reepsville, Boone,NC and >> >Amherst and Gladstone,VA. Don't know how to go about finding where they >> >were from.Believe they were farmers but can't located where they were >> >born or died. Any suggestions? There's no place around where I live to >> >try to check all those census. if I could find a starting locale, I'd >> >travel down to NC, whwere most of the Jonas and Reeps lived. >> > >> >Ann Reed Pocono Lakes,PA > >Dear Agnes, >My mothers name Mary Elisabeth Jonas, her birthdate was 22 Nov 1915. >She claimed to have had a brother Hoke/Hoagie who was supposedly killed in >WW2 in the Pacific but can't find any record for him in the Military. >Thanks, >Ann Reed