This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YWC.2ACI/5298.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Eilis, When I got into this research I knew only my grandfather's name and his younger brother and that they were from RI. I quickly found the family on the 1880 census confirmed by the age of my Grandfather and the town they lived in. I did then and still do review census record in order to fill in the family. Next I looked througfh City Directories in RI and searched the Civil death records until I found both persons records. Each record contained the parents names and just Ireland as the birth place. I havent been able to locate any church records and I have looked at a lot of churches. Next I found through a name density chart that there were a lot of Reynolds in Co Leitrim. I also consulted the Ireland householders index and Griffith's Valuation and found a Michael Reynolds in Drumboy and the other Grandparents names there or close by. The marriage record of Michael and Catherine was found quickly. Just last month I made contact with decendents of the second daughter, Annie who are researching also.Their Grandmother Annie had always told the family that she was from Co Leitrim. Together with their information and mine and the children's ages I feel good that I have the correct marriage. I agree with you that the children could have been born in different places. I reviewed on Ancestry the England and Wales 1861 census.Annie and 7 children left Liverpool in 1865. Michael died just months before the 1900 census. I have reviewed two seperate Providence County courts, RI naturalization record films of appropiate dates and found nothing.The county records had a lot of personel information. On a NARA index film I found several possiblities for the male children. I sent for Frank and it appears to be his papers. I learned nothing from the sparce information listed. After reading your note I am going to ask NARA if they sent me the entire record or is there any other record available. I have to do more work in this area on the children. Your right about doing a through search in the US, I learned a lot about this family, their deaths, travels and a lot more. I feel good about finding this information. Finding two lost cousins has added a lot. We have exchange pictures, etc. They sent me a picture of my Father when he was a boy that must have been sent up to them. At your suggestion I am going to look at the Civil registration for John born in early 1865. I have doubts about this family's registration practice because there is no record of the last boys born in RI. Even the state Archives admitted that. As I said before, you are very generous with your knowledge. Thank you.I have recieived a lot of good ideas and leads from researchers like you. Jack