asprentz@hotmail.com wrote: > > 1. Mary Helen Szedlovics was an immigrant from Hungary, but may not > have been Magyar.. > If I assume that mother stayed in Ohio a few years and got pregnant > by another man, would I assume that she married him and then moved > to Michigan? Or that she had a child out of wedlock? A little of both, maybe? She just started using his surname, people assumed they were married. > If mother remarried either while pregnant, or shortly afterward, > would her husband adopt the girl and give her his last name? Unnecessary expense if they were married at the time of the birth -- or even if they were representing themselves as a couple. Law *assumes* a woman's husband is the father of any child she bears during their marriage. > I have searched for mother with married name, maiden name, a zillion > varients of both married and maiden, and no last name at all. I > have searched for all Mary's, Maria's, Mariska's and Mar**'s who > would be the apx age in the 1910, 1920, and 1930. She has to be > somewhere! How about looking for Helen or Helene or Hellen ? For Polly or Molly? Many many people use their middle name because their first is an official baptismal name. Try EI again using the portal off JewishGen that will permit you to look for M as the given name and S as the surname with ethnicities? Worse-case scenario, she's on the EIdb under a nickname, so pull up all the Szedlovics sound-alikes and look for a female of the right age. Good luck. Cheryl singhals@erols.com