From your post on Sunday 11/28/10 I copied the web address and I found the elusive Adele, my Mother. I was hoping to get the 1892 Census with my grandfather John Johnson's family. I did get the 1905 Census and everyone was there except my Mother. Where could she be, she was just a little girl. I typed in her name and I found her. She was visiting her cousin Tillie. Tillie was 16 at the time and worked in a Laundry. Her Mom was Grandma's sister and from what I gather was a very fragile lady. Tillie's father was an iceman. The day the census was conducted was June 1, 1905. Adele was in the fourth grade. Tillie lived in another area of Brooklyn. This is the same Adele who was born in Brooklyn, but there is no birth certificate for her. She was born in September 1894. The New York City Archives have no record of her birth. Requests have been sent by different people over the years. Nothing found for 1894, 1893 or 1895. There is no baptismal record in any of the Roman Catholic Churches in the area of Red Hook or surrounding areas. In 1966 she wanted to visit my brother at his Franciscan missionary site in Goias, Brazil. She had a difficult time getting a passport. They finally found her in the 1900 census where the census taker spelled her name as Ordell. My Grandmother and her sister were born in Georgia and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. It could explain that the Census taker listening to a Southern accent heard what sounded like Ordell. They spent years in an orphanage after the death of their father an immigrant confectioner from France. Their Mother was not able to keep them. She worked as a housekeeper for a pharmacist in Charleston. She would go to the Charleston Market and after several years met a man who was a fruitier. He had several children. The couple married and first the youngest daughter was brought to live with them and then my Grandmother. My great grandmother was expecting a child. On the day of the birth, both Mother and child died and the youngest child went back to the orphanage. Grandma who was 18 married a young Norwegian who worked for the Revenue Service (U.S. Coast Guard) aboard the McCulloch. Pauline