This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/921.1 Message Board Post: Here are a few details that may be helpful. I’m not related, just a GEIGER Board reader. The 1900 Census gives his birth as AUG 1859. It indicates he was married eight years with one infant son. In the listings for 1910 & 1920, they are still in Sacramento with two additional daughters. I did not find a marriage for August Geiger and Alena DeBrunnner in the Illinois Marriage Index. http://www.sos.state.il.us/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html This seems to indicate that a marriage in St. Louis would be the more likely option. I did find an 1880 Census listing on LDS for Alena’s family under DeBeunner in Madison County, IL. The alternate spelling may be a variant, but it could be a transcription error or a typo just as well.