This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Eldridge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/5774 Message Board Post: Folks, Am hoping SOMEONE on this list can help me out. I've exhausted all online efforts to locate any information on the parent of these two. They and their parents were born in Massachusetts. The only records I've managed to locate on them in the early years, are the 1910-1920 US Census records in Hampden County, Mass. Nellie I. Phillips married @ 1925 to Paul M. Eldrige, and lived, for a time, in North Adama, Mass. She died in CT in 1990. Her birthdate from SSDI is 1-Oct-1901. In the 1910 US Census, she and her sister Mildred are listed as "State Boarders" living with the Stacy family in Monson, Mass. Since neither had been born by 1900 Census, and parents weren't around in 1910, those avenues are closed. Aside from taking a trip up to Massachusetts' State Archives, I'm hoping SOMEONE on this list MIGHT have some more information. I've no idea what happened to Mildred, but know she lived to adulthood. Not sure if she married, or not. They also, by family "lore" had an! other, older sister. Just that none in the family can remember her name! So, as you can see, without some help, this is a brick wall that's in the fairly recent past. Any and all help/suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Jared Handspicker