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/21.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Pat, Thanks. My biggest problem is that nobody in the family knows anything about him. All I know is that he is listed as the father of John P. Strack born 17 Feb 1909 in RI (per a RI vr cd). I've not been able to find out what happened to John. The relative I'm researching was a sister of John, Alice Strack b 1911, who later married a John Besharian and moved to California. She died in Fullerton, Ca in 1989 according to the ssdi. Supposedly they also had a sister Mary, who married a Galvin. I don't know if she is one of the ones on ssdi. The problem is that Eli A. supposedly left or divorced his wife Emma J. (Patenaude) and they never saw him again. Emma was born 1887 and died 1968. I don't know what Eli's dates were but I suspect he was born before 1887 and died before the 1960's or there is a good chance he would have been on the ssdi. I have the 1900 census and I looked for him in every state between here and PA but didn't find him. I also had the 1910 for a! while (with no index) and I checked almost all of Providence, RI page by page except for the pages that wouldn't open. No luck. One clue might be that the cd I have also has an Albert L. Strack who married in 1908 RI to a Gertrude L. Hall and an Edith K. Strack who married in 1907 RI to Linus M. Cook. I thought it was possible that one or both of them might be siblings of Eli. Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything on Albert or Edith either. If you have any ideas I would love to hear them. One family member thinks this family was PA Dutch, but since they know nothing about him I'm keeping all my options open. I'm working on this tree for my brother-in-law.