Mimi, I agree 100%, and have my own success along those same lines. This is not a Brooklyn connection however. One set of my great-grandparents was born in Canada, I thought in the Montreal area. I have been searching for their birth/baptism records for at least 10 years now. Recently first some digital images and then a partial index became available for Quebec BMD records. I began searching those records, but to no avail. That is until I searched not for my great-grandmother, but instead a person I thought might be one of her brothers. I found his marriage record which showed he was indeed one of her brothers, and what's more, it provided the name of the parish (not Montreal but nearby) where the parents lived during that time. So I went to search the records of that small parish last night for the first time; lo and behold, there she was, sitting right there in those records just waiting for me to find her. I found not only her, but another one of her brothers in the baptismal records for that other location outside of Montreal -- a place I would never have known to look had it not been for her brothers marriage record (she was 3 when that brother was first married). Not only did I succeed in finding her record after 10 years of searching for it -- I learned that she and I share a birthday (November 29th). Now if only I could find her husband's birth record as well. -- Mary Mimi Stevens wrote: > I would like to remind everyone who has hit a brick wall ......... > research your > collateral lines. [snip]