In a message dated 3/20/2006 10:59:14 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DIB.2ACE/369.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: That story sounds TOTALLY fake! Too poor to be Catholic! Insane! She got kicked out of the church for some reason, obviously. Probably got pregnant out of wedlock, the man ran off, and she kept the baby. THAT would be my first guess! Sincerely, Tom David Man, are you pesimistic!! I do not know the reason why my ggrandparents left the catholic church, just that they did when they arrived in southern MN. And that there was a big bruhawhaw when my grandfather married catholic and returned to the church. No one in the family got pregnant!! Some were already married in Bohemia, the others had their kids a suitable 12 to 18 months after marriage. However, I doubt that that was a reason as if you will check the history of Bohemia, you will find many early babies because the couple had to get permission to marry, and the man had to prove he could provide for the family before they could. Annie in Minnesota