On Wed, 21 May 2008 06:41:33 -0600, [email protected] (Coleen Coleman) wrote: >Am opting out, why? Well there is someone >out there who shall remain anonymous that >was not very cordial when responding to my >request for help with my Brick Wall. Calls >himself The Chief > Unless you feel able to explain why your wide choices of possible surnames should not be expanded (Poland being a quite feasible mis-transcription of Ireland etc) I don't see the problem. Presented with the few facts you give, I would suggest tracing cousins - look for where mermbers of the family were at every possible time (1880 onwards), and see what you can determine about the people they were with, hoping for a reference to a relationship. In any case, for a brick wall, I would give a lot more information (dates and place of death, whether daughter married, any other children, and other moves, etc, etc.) It might also help to put the details of the nuclear family on a free webpage (eg http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm) with a picture (to avoid spam) of your email address, giving what you know (don't bring it forward to the living). I have done this twice - one was "answered" after 4 years, the other after 8 years.