Hello, My name is Rebekah Edwards and I just signed onto this list. I'm fairly new to doing genealogy and have very quickly ended up stuck on my Strong line and I am hoping that some of you out there might have some tips to share with me. I'm trying to find information about my great-grandmother -- Caroline Strong (Edwards, Bell.) I have very little information to work with but here it is: The oldest documented information I have is the 1910 census for Fort Smith, AR on which my g-grandmother is listed as "Callie" living with James Edwards (my g-grandfather, her first husband. Her second husband was James O. Bell.) She listed her mother as born in Arkansas and her father as born in Michigan. She is listed as 22 (which puts her date of birth as 1888.) The oral information I have about her is from my grandmother (who was her daughter-in-law and who knew only a very little about her.) The story is that Callie's parents died when she was a child and she was raised by "Uncle Bill" near Ft. Smith AR. My grandmother thought that before her parents died her family lived in Stonewall, OK. Also, Callie had a brother named Christopher. It is unclear if Strong was Callie's father's name, or if Uncle Bill was her mother's brother and Strong was his family name. Unfortunately, this is all I know about my great grandmother. If by any wonderful chance any of these names ring a bell with anybody out there or if you have any suggestions of ways I might proceed I would love to know about it. Thank-you, Rebekah Edwards [email protected]