Dear Charlotte I am in a city called Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, and have been researching the name Coates (my great-grandmother's maiden name) for a number of years now, and was very interested to discover your website. I have traced our ancestry back to the late 1600s in Staffordshire and am still continuing to find out new things even now. One area where I have struggled is in tracing - past 1920 - the whereabouts of my great-great aunt, who was born Olive Jane Coates (daughter of Thomas Stanway and Hannah Coates) in Burslem, Stoke-on- Trent in about 1876 and who emigrated to Trenton New Jersey in 1910. By then she had married Frederick Wilcox (July 17th 1898 - Stoke-on- Trent - Frederick Wilcox was born in 1865) and they had two children. The first was George Frederick (known as Frederick), who was born on October 9th, 1899 at 78, Pleasant Street, Burslem, Stoke-on- Trent.Their second son Ernest was born on September 2nd, 1901 at 26, Milton Road, Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent. A ship passenger record I have managed to obtain from the USA shows that Olive Jane Wilcox left the port of Liverpool, England, on October 4th, 1910, aboard the Carmania to join her husband (he is listed on the record as Sydney Wilcox) at 378, Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey. Another address I have for the family is 1224 Magnolia Terrace, Newark, New Jersey. The only other information I have on the family is very scant: Olive Jane remarried in the USA, to a man named as Sydney Gilmore. In the 1920 censes the two boys had changed their name to Gilmore also and they were living at 74 New Street, Newark in Essex County (a researcher has found this out for me in the USA). I have not been able to obtain any more information other than this despite looking on the SSI. I obviously want to find out the death/marriage dates of the family and eventually get into contact with their descendants. I wondered whether you could suggest any options for further research because the American system is so daunting to me as I am sure the British one would be to most Americans! I know it is a long shot given that I don't have dates, but if you can make any suggestions for me I would be most grateful. With very best wishes. Nigel Chell Get your Free E-mail at http://CoatsArchive.zzn.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com