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/0gB.2ACI/249.2 Message Board Post: The children of Alfred G. REID & Nellie Mae DAVIDSON for whom delayed birth records were issued are on the SD Births site, online. They had in Minnehaha County Emma Rae, 8 July 1897 Alfred Nelson, 8 July 1899 Alexander Davidson (15 F 1901 - 1 S 1974, last res. Santa Barbara, SB, CA; SSN issued CA --Social Security Death Index, online) Nellie, 8 Mar. 1903 Margaret, 4 Oct. 1904. A Google search shows that Colonel Alexander REID was of the 424 Rgt. HQ Co., 106 Infantry Division, at Heckhalenfeld, Germany, 16 Dec. 1944. During the day they were attacked, but a P-38 & P-47 stopped the action. That evening they marched to Bracht [Reported by Robert LYONS, orderly, 424/HQ]. If you know where the family lived before South Dakota, you can probably find them on the 1880 census database at FamilySearch.