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/RAC.2ACI/1604.2.1 Message Board Post: Shirley, Thank you for your response. We have checked this particular Raymond Smith out, and my mother has a feeling it is her Daddy, but I am not sure. Our Raymond H. is supposed to be Raymond Harold, and the similarities are certainly there. My Grandfather started out as a lineman, (which does have to do with electricity) after he married my Grandmother in 1914. He also worked at a farm in Brazoria County, the county in which he registered for the World War 1 draft. Then he worked for Kirby Lumber Co. in Conroe, Texas. The strange thing is that we have been unable to find him or my grandmother in the 1920 census. One difference between the Raymond H. Smith in the 1930 census and my grandfather is their ages. My grandfather stated on his draft record he was born in January 30,1889 in Smith Grove, Kentucky. My grandmother had always said he was born in 1887 and that he came from Pennsylvania when he was 20 years old, and that he died when he was 40 years old in 1927. When she died, we found the WW1 Draft card in her little box of his few personal effects that he left behind when he left her. Also found in those personal effects were a business card with Raymond H. Smith Fingerprint expert, Fort Worth, Texas. It had a fingerprint on it. People did not share their very intimate personal lives back then as they do now. She was certainly very closed about it. Thank you again for your help. Jeanette