This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/5949.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Again thank you for your informative information. I just started researching our family lines. I have most of the Reddell family line from the aid of many on the net, and family members who have published two books. I am hoping to go back farther than John Reddell from 1730. I am interested in finding his roots from England, or Ireland. I will also have to do most of the research on my husband's mother's side as we divorced and the aunt who researched this information feels we are not privileged to receive this information. Ida Mae McGuire married Harvey Burke Reddell in Ferris, Tx and had four children, Charles Larry, Billy Eugene, Cecil Kenneth, and Ruth Lee. I do not know if this research is for McGuire alone or if this was processed for Crawford and McGuire as Margie McGuire married Mr. Crawford, this information is suppose to be at the main library in Dallas and from what I have been told is listed as Private. I am not asking you to research this information, just informing you of some of the problems I have encountered. I have found my grandfather's family through the help of the net. We are 5th generation German. My gggrandfather came from Hessen Germany. I had only my grandfather's name and my grandmother's first name. I asked for help with the Ellis Island listings and received this response back. My understanding was my grandfather came from Germany during WWI and instead it was my ggf born in 1814 and is on the 1880 census. I am also having a problem with my mother's maiden name being spelled 3 different ways on her social security papers. As I become familiar with places to look and how to get around membership obstacles, I should be able to find this information. Again, I am not asking you to research, just letting you know my obstacles, which you have called walls, and yes they are coming easier with people like yourself, thank you very much.