This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.randolph/420.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a significant amount of information on the Pilet / Pillet / Pelate family covering 10 generations dating from 1700 to the 1990's. However the only information I have on Louis Pelate and Emily (aka Millie) Boyer is that Louis was born in 1863 to Louis M. Pelate and Mary Philomen Lourvier and that he married Millie Boyer on 14 March 1885. Louis had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. I have no info on their children (your grandmother). Given your grandmother's birth date in 1882 either this wedding date is wrong or there is much more to the story (e.g., out-of-wedlock birth or another husband).