Hi Maryann, When you have Irish ancestors just accept the fact that all names are common combinations. You have to utilze DOBs, and POBs to eliminate who is not yours. Marriages: http://stevemorse.org/vital/nymarriages.html?index=groom Deaths: http://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath.html Social Security DeathIndex: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/ Good luck, Barb NYC Researcher marnold@Princeton.EDU > > I am trying to locate marriages for...Bridget Young and Ellen Young, > Ellen's family nickname was "Alice"...Bridget...a servant in NYC in 1905 when > her sister > Ellen arrived through Ellis Island...they both married, I presume in > NYC... > Bridget died in childbirth either in the late 1930's or early > 1940's...grandfather's obituary mentions his sister Mrs. Patrick Cody was still alive > in 1961...located Patrick F. Cody with wife Alice M. and their children in > 1920 and 1930, but I am not sure they are MY relatives...1920 Census they > lived at 794 Madison St., Brooklyn, KingsCo...1930 Census they lived at 12 > Newton Place, Hempstead, Nassau,County. Patrick was listed as a bank guard > at a "trust company." > Any suggestions of where to look for their marriages and deaths, etc., > how to look, how I figure out if these are really my family or just > coincidentally people with the same names > Thanks. > Maryann