This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Strack, Patenaude, Cole Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZAQBAEB/65 Message Board Post: I am still looking for this Strack. The RI vital records cd lists him as "Eli A. Strack" on the birth record of his son John, born 1909 Providence. On the 1910 census he is an "automobile repairer" age 28 in Boston with wife Emma J. (Patenaude) and son John (infant, b.RI). By 1920 he is a plumber age 40 in Revere, MA and is on the census as "Andrew Strack" with wife Emma, son John (b.RI) and dau Alice (b.Mass). This has been very frustrating. I don't know where he is for sure in 1930, but son John & dau Alice are in Chicago boarding with a woman named Nellie Knapp. Also boarding is an "Andrew Cole" age 42, divorced, plumber. I feel he is connected to John & Alice somehow. In 1900 this Andrew was probably the "Eli A. Cole" in Providence age 21, plumber. Is Eli A. Cole the same person as Andrew Strack??? Is there a connection between the Strack and Cole families somewhere? Any help would be fantastic.