Hi List, i'm trying to find the parents of this lady IRENE LAYNE KANTOR, B;1905 she married MACKINLAY KANTOR, (i have his info) the author of ANDERSONVILLE PRISON they met in Chicago, and were married 33/50 years, the both died in FLORIDA, she in SARATOGA,FL. i have sent for her death certificate this morning. and will send for her Social Security App file as soon as i can find a form for it,:-/ now i need to find out where she was born for sure, like what state,if not Illinois and who her parents were, and *the maiden name of her mother, one census has her born in ILLINOIS her daddy _________LAYNE born in OHIO and her mommy ____ ___born in Wisconsin and i know her maiden name, IRENE LAYNE and her date of birth, JAN 8TH,1905..in Illinois (??) and i know her parents siblings married into the PARTON/PARTINs who were from KENTUCKY,<TENNESSEE <KANSAS... and now it looks like it could have been ILLINOIS, unless she went there because she was an artist,...... hmm, we can't find the parents of JAMES PARTON/PARTIN who married DELILAH HENDERSON, nor where they came from, and we can't find ANYTHING AT ALL on her, they are the couple whom Irene Laynes people,married into, could it be they were in the ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN, OHIO area, while we have been looking in TN,and KY.??? well my humble THANKS for any and all help you may give, in kinship Deborah