Hi - for your first question. I have most of that family pinned down. Yes, her mother was Ann Reynolds, good work. James returned to Ireland, presumably to return his daughter to his family to raise, and then went back to the US to work some more. But he returned to Ireland and married there, and is in the 1901 census with Mary Ann born in the USA. It took me ages to find her birth - I finally made the connection through a naturalization paper that listed the town he was living in, which matched her place of birth. This is the family group online: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cullivan01&id=I3828 I at first thought Mary Anne married James Heslin, but I obtained the marriage record later and it was the wrong Mary Anne, so I corrected my records on my PC, but have to update the web site. Re the second question - if you have a membership to the Boston Public Library, you can look up old copies of the Boston Globe online, through 1924 I think. Searching for a name doesn't always work, so it helps to have a date of death. I search the collection by date and the word "deaths" and the obituary pages show up (among others). You can save the images as PDF files. If you are a MA resident, you can obtain a library card for free. I use my brother's since I am out of state. Do you need me to look this up, or do you have access? Susan On 8/24/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Susan, > I tried looking for this family in earlier and later years but couldn't find > a good match. Is mother Ann (Reynolds) Cook, the woman who died in Boston > 1893? I was looking for the 1900 census to see if Mary Ann had siblings that > you might find their obituaries and obtain her married name that way. I have > access to the Worcester Massachusetts library if I can help you. > Cheryl > > Also, a question about the obituary you looked up in Boston. Were those > records online? I am looking for the obituary of Thomas Vaughan died March 29, > 1914 in Boston but was buried in early April as his wife lived in Worcester > and he lived in Everett. > >