Hi there, You might want to check www.familysearch.org , click on search for ancestor, and you can do a parent search by putting just the names of the parents in the inquiry boxes. Good luck! Erin Carol McGann <[email protected]> wrote: Hello to the List: We would like anyone's suggestions or thoughts on where to go next with one of our lines. Mary and James, both born somewhere in Ireland, are found in Westchester Co. in the 1850s, where they had two children. James then disappears from all subsequent records that we have searched so far. Mary, 33, listed as a widow, turns up with their two children in the 1870 Brooklyn census. We have reason to suspect that she was not a widow but listed herself that way, perhaps because of the shame Catholics perceived in broken marriage, and that James actually remarried or at least had children with another woman, also in Brooklyn. We're trying to determine whether a certain James we have located in Brooklyn is the former husband of Mary. His name is right, as are his age and occupation. We have sent for his death certificate from 1901, which could shed some light. Does anyone have any ideas on where else we might look in our efforts to prove that he is/isn't Mary's husband? Mary died in 1885, and she is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, her burial paid for by someone with the same last name as James, but there is no James nearby. Thanks. Jack and Carol McGann ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== List Administrators: Tracy Cassidy [email protected] Jim McCarthy [email protected] ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!