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/DAw.2ACIB/2397.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Doesn't sound like your Earl Lawrence is the one I suggested. I did look in the 1930 U. S. Census for you and found an Earl D. Lawrence in New York at age 11. That would put him at an age where he could be the father of your father. He was in the family of Frank Lawrence who was from Italy and whose father was from France and mother from Italy. The family listed is as follows: Frank F Lawrence 53 Lillian A Lawrence 48 wife Francis F Lawrence 16 son Celia E Lawrence 9 daughter Earl D Lawrence 11 son Leo B Lawrence 22 son Mable E Lawrence 24 daughter Lester J Lawrence 3 son You should try to get a copy of your father's birth certificate. This should name his parents plus give you some other information that may be of help.