Hello, everyone. My most elusive ancestor was Barbara STEINMAN. On Sept. 27, 1894, she gave birth to my grandfather and soon put him up for adoption with a private adoption agency in Lincoln, NE. He was adopted by Daniel & Emily Ann Skinner of the Alvo area and named Alva Albert. Years later the adoption agency told him that Mrs./Miss? Steinman (or her family) owned some land in Kansas which she had wanted to go to my grandfather. The agency wouldn't tell him any more details. I found her listed as Barby Steinman & a servant of Joseph Whittman of 939 H St. in the 1900 Lincoln census (sheet 4, line 89). She had been born in Nov., 1853, in Switzerland. On the 1910 census the Whittmans had a different servant. She probably would have been alive then, at age 57, but I don't know where. Maybe I should check the soundex index for 1910, if there is one. Any help, suggestions, or questions about possible connections with Barbara Steinman are very welcome. With thanks in advance, Danielle Craig dmcraig31088@home.com