I have a ggrandmother who refuses to be found. Here's my dilemma. 1. Mary Helen Szedlovics was an immigrant from Hungary, but may not have been Magyar.. 2. She married a Mihaly/Mike Princz/Printz/Sprencz/Sprentz apx 1907 in Dayton, Ohio 3. She gave birth to a child in Dec of 1907, and she was 17 at the time. ( child #1) 4. Six months later (June-ish of 1908) she left her husband and child. 5. Reportedly, she went to Detroit, Michigan but have not found her on any census. 6. Found her son on 1930 census, living with a sister I never knew about. 7. Son says he was born in Ohio, which he was...in 1907 8. Son says his mother was born in Connecticut..father born in Ohio.. both of which are wrong. 9. Daughter says she was born in Michigan. 10. Daughter says her mother was born in Connecticut..father born in Ohio..both wrong 11. Sons age on census is off by 3 years, making him 26 instead of 23. 12. Daughter says she is 23, when she can't be if son is 23. Daughter is younger than son. 13. They aren't twins. If I assume ( bad, I know) that son and daughter have the same father, this would mean mother was pregnant when she left her husband and son and would have the same surname. 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? If mother remarried either while pregnant, or shortly afterward, would her husband adopt the girl and give her his last name? I know that son and daughter were raised separately...son was raised in orphanage in Ohio, but I believe daughter was raised in Mi somewhere, either in orphanage, relatives, or with mother. 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! I have tediously searched through Ed's in cities where I thought she'd most likely be, but no luck. I have tried probate records, death records, census records, ssdi application, funeral home, place of employment, etc for the son (my grandfather) and found no usable info on his mother. I have searched for daughter ( Anna C. Crist<--married name) under no last name, born in Michigan, on 1910, 1920, and have not found her. No death record found for her either, and trust me, I have searched a zillion ways. Does anyone know how long a typical divorce took to get back in 1907/8? What are the chances that she/he never filed divorce papers? I know she was in living in Detroit in 1916, but not sure how long before, or after. I've thought about sending for marriage/divorce records, but those won't tell me anything more than I already know or anything that will help me to find her in 1910, 1920, 1930, etc. No record from Ellis Island, so I assume she came in through another port. I don't know the name of the daughter, or the exact birth date, so cannot send for birth record. I don't know where daughter married, or when, but I assume it was 1928ish. Where else should I look? and What surname should I be looking for? How does one find a woman who may have remarried around 1910ish? Any suggestions kindly accepted. I'm pulling my hair out here. I've been searching for her for 10 yrs. Anne Sprentz Do you know who killed my father? JOHN SPRENTZ, murdered 1983 in Ecorse, Michigan.... see my website for further details. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2651/Unsolvedmurder.html asprentz@hotmail.com