Dear Lori, Were you working on another list and surname that I was in on ?? But, on COLLINS: I have enjoyed your postings, and particularly those connected to IL and MO. According to my unreliable and sketchy information, my grandfather Fred Harvey Collins was born in East St. Louis IL in 1882, father also born IL, mother MO. Married Maud Yake of Park City UT, died AZ about 1926, while working the mines of Globe-Miami AZ. I think he was a miner all his life. In the 1910 Los Angeles directory he was listed as a grading engineer, and Park City was a mining town at the time. I believe he was also a lifelong member of the Loyal Order of Moose. After his death, my mother (Alice Edith Collins) attended Mooseheart in IL, as an orphan of a member. Let me know if you run into him !! and keep that research coming !!! Good luck ! Bill Blackburn Mt. Shasta, CA