This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby, Sly, Todd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQJ.2ACEB/732 Message Board Post: Ron Colby's website has the following information, as does my own: Edith E. COLBY was born on 20 MAY 1872 in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, his wife Who settled in Bow in 1768" By one of them, Concord, NH Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895. Parents: Edward H. COLBY and Jennie SLY. However, California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record shows Name: COLBY, EDITH E Social Security #: 563123532 Sex: FEMALE Birth Date: 20 May 1872 Birthplace: NEW HAMPSHIRE Death Date: 28 Mar 1942 Death Place: LOS ANGELES Mother's Maiden Name: TODD Father's Surname: COLBY So was her mother Jennie Sly, or was the surname "Todd"? 1900 census shows her living with mother, Jean F. Colby. 1880 has the mother as Jane F. Colby.