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/3AB.2ACI/6940.1 Message Board Post: Hello, There are some unanswered parts to your query that make it very difficult to provide any type of a definitive answer , Up front, I will tell you that I am NOT related so far as I know. For example, is it that you do not know who your mother was? Or, was she a Mary that you have listed or someone else or was there another marriage to someone else who was your mother? You mention all these other children but you don't say if these are familiar sibling names to you or why you cannot confirm these names.. Just based upon the KBI, I would say that this couple is NOT your parent/s. This is because I found a birth record in Harlan Co. in the same year you state you were born in Indianapolis, IN. Here is what I found with all of these children born to "a" Mary DUNCAN in Harlan Co., KY: BOWLING, Lula b. 1-2-1934 - not recorded until 9-11-1979 BOWLING, Isom b. 2-21-1931 - not recorded until 9-11-1979 BOWLING, Ray b. 8-18-1936 BOWLING, Esther b. 5-19-1935 BOWLING, Ruth b. 2-20-1945!!!!! in Harlan to Mary DUNCAN I have no explanation for the fact there were no other children listed bet. 1936 - 1945. If this is the same Mary DUNCAN then she had children over a long 27 year span which did happen back then. In the marriage records for Clay Co., there is this record: BOWLING, Frank, 21 yrs, b. Clay Co., KY mar. MAYHEW, Viola, age 21, b. Clay Co., KY on 7-8-1930, File #49 Other information on this particular marriage states that both parties were single when they married and that his parents were: Pearl BOWLING and Dortha ROBERTS and hers were: MAYHEW, John with no mother listed. There is no way for me to know if there is any connection to your Clay Co. Frank and this marriage. To further confuse things, as of the 1920 Fed. Census in just ONE of the transcribed Fed. census books, there were 4 Frank BOWLINGS listed who range from an 11 month old Frank, a 17 year old Frank, an 18 year old Frank and a 37 year old Frank BOWLING in Clay Co. There could well be others but the other volume transcribed is not an every name Index. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA