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/HBRBAIB/1321.2 Message Board Post: Your best route is to start with what you know. If you know when & where that Janice Margaret Sweet was born, you should obtain a copy of her birth certificate. If Janice has siblings, try to get copies of their birth certificates also. *Probably* Thomas & Irene (Meyers) Sweet were married a year or so before the birth of their oldest child. If you know WHERE that child was born, there is a good chance that the parents were married in the same location (or a nearby county). Contact that county to find a marriage license for Thomas & Irene. It will *probably* include their ages, birthplaces & hopefully the names of their parents & possibly where the parents were born. Armed with this information, you may be able to find the parents of Thomas (with him as a child) on a census record. This may give you the names of siblings of Thomas which can help lead to more info. about him, etc. etc. Always work backwards from WHAT YOU KNOW. Good luck in your search.