Dear Listers, On ancestry.com I find the following marriage record from Omaha, NE: Chris Christensen, 25, born Denmark - parents Nels Christensen and Lizzie Hanson Isabell Thompson, 22, born South Dakota - parents John Thompson and Annie Anderson married by the Douglas County Judge in Omaha, NE on June 4, 1903 This couple is nowhere to be seen in the 1910 census (unless I have gone blind…!) And I am unable to find any Isabell (or Bell or Ingeborg or similar) Thompson born in South Dakota in the early 1880’s to parents with these names. HOWEVER, I have one Ingeborg Thompson born in Lyons township, Minnehaha Co., SD on Nov. 2, 1882 (re. confirmation record from Nidaros Lutheran church 1896) to parents Knute Thompson (Skjel) and Ellen Anderson. The mother was hospitalized at Yankton, SD shortly thereafter, and this Ingeborg is presumably the same as Bell Thompson, born SD Nov. 1882 to Norwegian parents living as a servant in Sioux City, IA in 1900. In 1900 we also find a sister of hers, Caroline «Lena» Thompson, born in SD July of 1878 to Norwegian parents as a single hotel chamber maid in Omaha, NE. She was actually born in Goodhue Co., MN July 22, 1878, but moved with her parents to Minnehaha Co., SD in the early spring of 1879 and grew up there! According to relatives in South Dakota, Ingeborg was indeed married and lived in Omaha, NE, but she died young leaving one son named Clarence Benson. None of his South Dakota relatives know what ever became of him! Knute Thompson (Skjel) died in Minnehaha Co., SD in 1928, and when his estate was settled in April of 1930, we find among his heirs: * daughter Lena Thompson (Skjel) of Omaha, NE * grandson Clarence Benson of Omaha, NE We do know that Caroline «Lena» Thompson later moved to Chicago, IL where I find her as a single servant in the 1940 census and where she supposedly was still living as late as in 1966… Her death date is unknown! But how about Clarence? Is there indeed a connection between the Isabell Thompson who married that Dane in Omaha, NE in 1903, and «our» Ingeborg? Thanks a million for any suggestions as far as Ingeborg (and Caroline «Lena») Thompson and Clarence Benson and their destinies are concerned! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane