This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gonyea, Bigras, Durette, Defayette, Strack, Laporte Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZAQBAEB/34.38.38.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Scott, Thanks for the information. I only found out about Josephine a few months ago and have been going like mad trying to fill in the blanks. Here is what I do have: Josephine Strack m. Felix Woodcome Jan 19, 1885. I don't know anything about Louis, but I have heard about him from someone else. The children I have are Arthur, Alfred, Henry and Mary. Arthur married Lillian McMann and had two children, Arthur and William. Alfred married Marguerite Coyne and had three children, Raymond, Marguerite and Dorothy Felix. Mary married Fred Wentworth and had Roy Wentworth. Henry married Agnes Reddington and had Doris and Harold Arthur. The information on Josephine's children came from Doris. I don't yet have dates on all of this. Josephine married Joseph Perry sometime before 1903, when my grandmother Rose Perry was born. Rose married Joseph Ernest Gonyea and had twins, Patricia and Theresa (my mother) and Janice. I found Josephine through a very kind person who looked up her obituary and death certificate for me in Pittsfield, MA. It named all of the children I have, but did not mention Louis, probably because he predeceased her. I had heard that at least some of the children were living with their Aunt Emma? Paradis. I had not heard that they were in NY with her parents. I had thought that Jacob was in MA by that time. Finding out that he was in NY will help me find him. I have a subscription to Ancestry's images online and will look that up. I found Josephine on the census living with Mary in 1900 in the Whitinsville area. I found Emma (Ellen?) Paradis on the census also, with a child living with them, but the image was so light I couldn't see who it was. Information from Doris indicated that at that time, Felix was still alive and living with the Paradis family, but I did not find him there. I'm not sure why he would be living with Josephine's sister anyway? Thanks for answering and feel free to contact me through email anytime. I did have one question though. I just recently found Josephine myself, and wondered how you discovered she was married to Felix Woodcome and Joseph Perry. I knew about Joseph Perry and that she had been married before, but the name my mother remembered was Whitcome, not Woodcome. Finding her obituary was what told me I had been on the wrong track. Thanks again, Pat