This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZAQBAEB/21.1.1 Message Board Post: Wendy, Thanks for trying to help. I have been able to find out alot about my Emma. Her maiden name was Patenaude and she was born just over the RI line in Massachusetts. She lived her entire life in the Providence,RI area. I have some info on her parents John Napoleon G. and Mary J (King) Patenaude. Her husband Eli is still elusive. I know nothing about him. I have not been able to find him in the local city directories or on the local census so far. From what I know he came to Providence from another part of the country, married Emma (before 1910), had at least two children (John c1909, Alice c1911 and maybe Mary), and then he disappears. I think they divorced. Maybe he went back to where he came from. Some of the family thinks he was from a PA Dutch Strack family. While you look into your Strack family, be sure to let me know if you come across an Eli that may fit it. I wondered if the one in NY had ever come to RI.