This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4RB.2ACE/3238.3.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Bill! My search for information about this family has started to reveal some interesting facts. Thanks to the help such as yours and Renee's, I've been able to obtain quite a bit of information about Jesse. These leads have also produced some information about Ellen, at least up to the age of about 11 (1920 census records) when she was living in Johnson City, Broome County, NY as a boarder. Patience and alot of time has also provided some leads to Alden Northrup (her older brother). I believe he was living at the "Hasting-on-the-Hudson" orphanage in Westchester County, NY at the age of 12, as I found his name listed on the 1920 census records for that place. I found additional records from the SSDI which indicated he died in May 1974 and his last residence was listed as Bliss, Wyoming County, NY. Now I proceed in locating Ellen later in her life - did she marry and if so, to whom. Did she or Alden have any children?? The biggest and most frustrating part of the family puzzle is trying to locate the names and information about Maude and Jesse's two other children born to them before her death.