Thought I would jot this quick note off to you in reference to my SMITH/MINARD family mystery. I have a lot of names in my genealogy for the children of Thomas Edwin (1853-1914) and Mary Jane (Minard, 1875-1945) SMITH of Elyrie City, Lorain County, Ohio. Family stories even state that they had 16 children, but the 1900 Michigan census and 1910 Ohio census only comes up with 11. Looking at just the children of this family, there two census records show: SMITH, Tulus?, dau., WF, Mar1880, 20S, MI/OH/Can ------, Mabel, dau., WF, Feb1882, 18S, MI/OH/Can ------, Clayton, son, Dec1883, 16S, MI/OH/Can ------, James, son, Feb1886, 14S, MI/OH/Can, at school ------, Ella, dau., Mar1889, 11S, MI/OH/Can, at school ------, Jewitt, son, Mar1891, 9S, MI/OH/Can, at school ------, Henry, son, Sept1892, 7S, MI/OH/Can, at school ------, Maude, dau.,May1894, 6S, MI/OH/Can, at school ------, Francis, dau., ??1897, 3S, MI/OH/Can 1910 Son George A 32 Michigan, Teamster Son Clayton E 26 Michigan, Machinist, Auto Factory (listed in 1910) Son James D 24 Michigan, Machinist, Steelworker (listed in 1910) Son Jocertte? N 19 Michigan, Shipping Clerk, Steelwork ( (listed in 1910, assumed Jewitt?) Son William H 17 Michigan Dau Frances W 13 Michigan (listed in 1910) So, other than older son George (not in 1900 census) and younger William (not sure where he was in the 1900 census) I don't have any new children listed in the 1910 census. So this would put the census provable offspring count at 11. And what I do have in my genealogy data, but NOT in the census info is info I can't match (one of these is most likely "Tulus" and potentially the married name for Maude SMITH as well): Mrs Gerald NAU Mrs Jack CARSON Mrs Joan BLIZZLY Mrs Phillip BARR Mrs. ? HOOD Mildren (SMITH) ALCOTT Mrs Deane ROGERS Anyway, any further assist on this "SMITH" line would be most helpful! Any other relatives related to this line that can help me with building the missing 5-7 members? Thanks in advance. William Silverthorn Rancho Palos Verdes, CA