Thanks - to Jane Lyman - my 15 year-old brick wall is solved. Now I have another, if it's not too much Onesime Gregoire, son of Paul Napoleon G. and Julie Morin, and his wife, Julie Guertin had a very large family. I've managed to find birth info on 13 of them in Canadian church records. The Canadian census records of 1881 indicate 3 children, that I haven't located, were born in the U.S. Mary and Ephrem, b. abt 1876 (possibly twins) Marie, abt 1878. The 1900 US census indicates one more, Arthur, born abt 1884 in MA. Onesime and Julie went back and forth, spending a few years in the US, going back to Canada, etc. They did this several times before finally settling in Manchester NH They lived for a short time in the 1870's in 2 Mass. towns I know of: Northhampton, MA and Haydenville, MA, and they had a number of relatives in Marlboro, MA Any help appreciated. Sister Therese Gregoire _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1b_explore_042009