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/Vm.2ADE/1401 Message Board Post: For years I have been trying to find my grandmother's Kansas birth record and never knew where in Kansas to look. Her mother and father were born and died in St. Louis so I think the family was in Kansas just a few years. I am very excited that a recent mailing from a St. Louis cemetery gave her place of birth as Hutchinson, KS. Voila! If anyone out there has any records or business directories which could help me with this family, I would greatly appreciate it. The father was Louis BECK 1859-1948. He was a sadler and harness maker. His wife was Pauline (Rostron) BECK 1864-1936. My grandmother was Pearl Ethel BECK born in Hutchinson, KS 17 Feb 1885. Grandmother's sister was Mabel B. BECK born in 1887--both in Hutchinson, Kansas. Grandmother eloped to Kansas in April 1907 to marry my grandfather (Edward W. Meyer), but that record has eluded me also. Thanks for reading this! Ginny in AZ