This is a shot into the dark, but perhaps there is some help out there. I am looking for Emma Mae Koch (*1910-1918) who married Patrick Shannon from Pittsburg, PA, somewhen and somewhere in Minnesota between 1934 and 1936. If anyone out there has a Koch family that would show Emma Mae as a relative, we then could find a lead to that family. With the surname of Koch it is obvious that Emma Mae came from a German family, and perhaps from a German Bohemian family. If you could lead us to some village names that we could check out, it would be greatly appreciated. I am doing this for a friend and neighbor of mine who was adopted as an infant, and she has no papers but her actual birth certificate from Ely, Nevada, when her parents were "out West" and suffered great difficulties. An older child died, and she herself was adopted. Any suggestions will be appreciated by Sandra Branch, a retired teacher and newbee family researcher. Aida