This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stacey, Brookshire, Brooksher, Brookshear Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/408.1.1 Message Board Post: Dan, Yes, what you posted does help -- I had long since lost track of the exact dates. I was not aware that Sarah Brookshire Stacey had remarried. Presumably, then, John Stacey had died by Aug 1903. I will keep in mind John's apparent marriage date. But as far as any of the family knows, Sarah was Matilda's birth mother. Certainly my ex-father-in-law thought so. I am intrigued by the fact that your source says "about 1877," and yet you refer to it as an "index." Could you please give me further details concerning this index? Is it a book or a CD? Where did the information in the record come from? Thank you for responding to my query. Every little bit helps! Alma