This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4714.1 Message Board Post: Dear Gloria, If the family was Catholic, I would start looking at church records to see if any witnesses/godparents might be relatives. The Catholic Church records were microfilmed by the Mormon church and are available through their local Family History Centers. Have you found John on any censuses? The St. Louis Public Library has many resources, including an online index to obits which might help find siblings if they were listed. It also has marriage indices, births, etc. Copies of any can be had for a reasonable fee. If you email a request, group your items with all obits on one email, all marriage records on another, etc. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/geneinfo.htm Cemetery index for those owned by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. http://www.stlcathcem.com/ Alicia, John E and two infants are buried there. You might want to find John in the city directories about the time he would have married and contact the Archdiocese to ask what church might have been in the area although it is more likely that they would marry in the bride's parish. Or, if the marriage record is at the library and you have the priest's name, you can look at the following to locate the parish: http://www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/catholic/russ/rus-priests-intro.htm http://www.archstl.org/index.html