Hello all, New to the list and I am So lost! I'll try to explain and keep it short. My great-grandmother: Mary Helen Szedlovich Her sons baptism record shows her name as : Mary Szedlovics b Ungvar, Hungary Her sons birth record in 1909 shows her Mary Setlowitz B 1889, Hungary Her sons SS application lists his mother as Mary Helen Szedlovich in 1910, she abandoned her husband and only child, a son in Dayton Ohio Son put in orphanage. Husband insane asylum. She left them before the 1910 census, and I have not found her in 1910 anywhere else. 1916: letter from priest indicates she had left husb and son in 1910 and moved to detroit. Was operating illicite boarding house according to letter. 1920: A Mary Sedlovitch age 32, single, born in Russia speaks Lithuanian shows up on the 1920 Federal Census in Conneticut listed as a boarder. immg year. 1905 says she can't read or write or speak english 1925: Her son appears in Detroit. I know this because he married my grandmother in Detroit in 1925. 1928: Her son leaves his wife and child in Michigan and heads for California. 1930: Her son John B Sprentz, shows up on 1930 census. He is in the home of his brother-in-law (which is a shock to me!) Elias P Crist. It is showing Elias's wife, and supposedly Johns sister as Anna C Crist. John's listed as being born in Ohio, father born in Ohio and mother born in Conneticut Anna's listed as being born in Michigan, father born in Ohio and mother born in Conneticut Cannot find ANY Mary Szedlovich of ANY spelling from Ungvar Hungary on Ellis Island, nor can I find any Mary Szedlovich of ANY spelling from Russia/Lithuania, but have found a few which have not lead to anything. It is possible that Mary left Dayton Oh in 1910 and went to Detroit, had a daughter, and by 1920 she was in Conneticut.....without her daughter who would have been 9 or older. She abandoned one child, so it's possible for her to abandon a second child. So I guess, my question is... could this Mary be mine? Could she be? Russian? Lithuanian? Her surname is not common in Hungary, and it's not a Hungarian name. Am I off track or should I keep looking for this Mary in Conneticut who was born in Russia or should I keep looking for a Hungarian Mary?? btw... it's taken me almost 10 yrs to get all the info that I have now.. but finding her on the 1920 census just happened last night. I'm so lost, and I apolgize if this is too general of a post for this list. A. Sprentz Do you know who killed my father? JOHN SPRENTZ, murdered 1983 in=20 Ecorse, Michigan.... see my website for further details. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2651/Unsolvedmurder.html asprentz@hotmail.com