Thanks for replying......... Already did 'the Google thing' many months ago & found quite a few picture postcards & other limited info on Fred & his midgets etc........ Am now really interested, in Fred & his family & am hoping to tie up with long lost family relatives, who still live in the US. Am particularly interested in Cherie ROPER (Sherrie.....however it is spelt), Fred & Elsie's daughter, who is a 'half 1st cousin of my family' & when & where she was born in US but have no inkling as yet!! I am assuming too that she is still alive & presumably married? Anyway I'm grateful to you for the thought & thanks once again. & Regards, Margaret Anne