I have spent the past 3 years trying to identify the parents of my husband's 3x great-grandmother. Her marriage record and her death record both gave her maiden name as Gorton, daughter of James and Sarah and born in Providence RI. I could never find a birth record nor any trace of her parents, all for a very simple reason. She was not a Gorton, she was a Young: Caroline M. Young b 1832, daughter of James and Sarah (Moore) Young. Caroline was married 3 times: 30 April 1850 at Providence to William H. Mead. They are listed in the 1850 census. Caroline and William had at least 2 children, Sarah E. b c1851 and Cornelia b c 1854. 1 April 1855 at Cranston to William Henry Gorton. I don't believe she had any children with Mr. Gorton. 25 July 1860, as Caroline M. Gorton, to Charles F. Riley. These are my husbands 3x great grandparents. They had at least 4 children: Cora b c1861, Samuel b 1867, Ida May b 1870, Alice Evelyn b 1873. Ida May mar. Arthur Willis Adams and her sister, Alice Evelyn, married Arthur's brother William Henry Adams. Ida and Arthur are Phil's 2x great grandparents. The family line for Caroline Young is: Gideon Young and wife, Phebe Gideon Young Jr. and wife, Lillis Seamans (Charles Seamans and Hannah Mason Bowen) William Young and wife, Cynthia Eddy (Benjamin Eddy and Lydia Perry) James Young and wife, Sarah Moore (James Moore and Betsey/Elizabeth) Caroline Young Mead Gorton Riley The key to all this was finding the birth records for Caroline's son Samuel. His middle name was Young and on a hunch, I went back through the marriage records and found the marriages of Caroline M. Young to William H. Mead and William Henry Gorton. Census records placed she and her children with Wm. Mead living with her brother and father in 1860 and with her husband, Charles F. Riley in 1870. The Youngs are a "new" Rhode Island family for me. Anyone on the list connect to the same Youngs? Marcia B. Briggs Marcia mbriggs3@mindspring.com http://home.mindspring.com/~mbriggs3 http://home.mindspring.com/~phil1180