Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I recently joined a list for Cloud County, Kansas where I was told I might find my great grandparents wedding information... this information came from a very old address book of my grandmothers where she had listed bits of information that she knew about her family. A woman on the list told me that the genealogy society there has these records for Aurora, St. Joseph, Clyde, Clifton, Linn and Palmer and that they were translated by a man named Bob Gieber from the original Latin and French. She apparently has the data base on her computer. The information on my Great Grandparents marriage is as follows St Peter's Catholic Church Records, Aurora, Kansas. Maurice Tremblay, son of Timothe Tremblay & Florence Crepault (?) from Washington State, married Anna Martin, daughter of Joseph Martin & Julie Landry. They were married 17 Feb 1890 Witnesses Louis Hamel & Emma Guennette, Service performed by Father Pierre Fortier. With this information I have just made a connection with the Tremblay Association in Quebec and found that they have my line from Maurice's parents back... and it can be followed back to the late 1600's. The little book that I mentioned before (my grandmothers) also had the name Kankakee listed as the birth place of her mother Anna Marie Martin. My great grandmother had told my mother that where she grew up there were no people that spoke English... and that it was a small town. I am beginning to think that my great great grandfather Joseph Martin may be the Joseph Martin listed as a land owner in the Illinois registries as owning land in Kankakee, which was purchased in 1868 and 1869. Maurice Tremblay met my great grandmother while she was working for one of his relatives in Chicago, Illinois as a maid. Anna Martin was only 14 when she married my Great Grandfather Maurice, he was 14 years her senior. Anna Marie Martin was 1/4 native American Indian, so if anyone on the list has a family that would fit this please let me know... Either Joseph Martin or Julie Landry were half native. As for me.... my name is Deborah and I live in British Columbia, Canada. Thank you again for the warm welcome and for the wonderful information that your list has already supplied me with. Sincerely, Deborah SEARCHING TROMBLEY or TREMBLAY, Quebec; British Columbia; Saskatchewan; Alberta; North West Territories, CANADA; Washington, Illinois, Kansas, Montana, California, USA; also possible connections in Mexico. MARTIN, Quebec, Kankakee, Petit Canada?, Illinois, Kansas, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta Canada CREPEAU, Quebec, Canada; LANDRY, Quebec, Canada; Illinois; Kansas New page under construction...