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/pM1.2ACIB/686 Message Board Post: ok, not much to go on I know, but here is what I have. Mabel Ann (Meyers?) was born before a brother named John. The family has her as being somewhat older than him. John was born in 1882, so she would most likely be born about 1875. Family history had John as being born in Lincoln, Nebraska. When I located him the census had birthplace as Washington, but that could be a lie. When John was young he was taken in by the Rhodes family of Seattle, Washington who ran the Rhodes Department store there. Family history has him as being adopted by them. The Rhodes were killed before 1900 and he was placed in an orphanage in Seattle. The stories have that he escaped around age 14. I first find him using the Rhodes name living alone in Seattle in 1909. Now for the sister. I have a picture of her, sent to her brother. She wrote on it Mabel Ann Allison (her married name) and the date was in 1945 Hollywood. My parents remember visiting her and her 2 daughters in the 1950's in Los Angeles. and again about 1960. When my parents returned to the states in 1963 one of the daughters had died from her illness. I am trying to find the link to Mabel and John's parents if any can help me.