This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZkB.2ACI/3014.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Your story is most interesting, Melanie. It sounds so much like mine with the kids winding up orphans. I guess this kind of thing happned a lot more than we ever knew. It sure makes it hard to find out who the parents were. Jane