This thread has been interesting as my mother would never talk about her family either. My mother came to Australia via Belgium and New Zealand from Younderhaugh, Falkirk, Scotland. My Grandfather (John Simpson Buchan Roy) was a wine merchant and appears to have either owned or managed hotels in Belfast, and England along the Scot/England border. When ever I asked my mother why did g'father migrate to Aussie land she would only say that it was not her business, if her father wanted her to know he would have told her. She was about 10 years of age when she arrived in Australia. Once she told me a little story how her father went into a bank in Falkirk one day and the teller remarked that he had just missed his father by five minutes, at the time the story meant nothing to me until I decided I would try and trace my family tree. If my gr grandparents had separated at some stage then the chance meeting would have meant something, unfortunately my mother would not open up and she passed away last year age 83. Researching: Wilson Roy Buchan Nightingale Gallie Sim Harley I notice that this group is predominantly American and in my search I found my Great Grandmother was Isabel Gallie and she had a sister Agnes who married James Finlay in Toronto on 4 November 1868 and lived in Battle Creek Michigan raising 10 children. I have a few other American names but very little details so once I put all the names into some sort of order I will have to try the local LDS centre. Thanks for all the ideas about where and how to search for family members, Regards Steve Ayres Sunbury Australia.