In a message dated 12/16/98 11:31:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, LKClover@aol.com writes: << My g-grandfather, ???Weaver, b. 1850 d. early 1900's married Cynthia ??? Dates and places unknown. Could be Texas, I'm just not sure. Their children: >> You have a struggle ahead of you. You don't know the first name of the ? WEAVER nor the surname of his wife. You don't know which year or state. There are a few ways to get over that hump. You can ask living reletives, look up census data, check death certificates. But the main thing is to work on the names you have listed as children. One way to do that is the SSDI. There are two online and they don't always have the same info. <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/fto_ssdisearch.html">Click here: Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.co...</A> http://www.familytreemaker.com/fto_ssdisearch.html