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/lEC.2ACE/460.1 Message Board Post: Alternative spellings yield a vital record! WIDEKIND, JOSEPH married SCHUCHART, VICTORIA on 8 Feb 1887 in Grant County, WI And I found Joseph in the 1900 Wisconsin census with several children (including a Henry) and a length of marriage that fits your Joseph & Victoria; the wife is listed as DORA, but this might have been due to the census-taker's mis-hearing of the name "Victoria" or perhaps she was called "Dora" as a diminutive. This Joseph immigrated in 1884 and was naturalized in the state of Pennsylvania. Liberty, Grant County, WI (Series T623, Microfilm 1790, Book 2, Page 1) Widekind, Joseph, Head, white, male, age 36, born August 1863, married 13 years, born Germany, parents born Germany, immigrated 1884, in US for 16 years, naturalized in Pa, occupation farmer. Dora, Wife, white, female, born June 1866, age 33, married 13 years, born Wisconsin, parents born Germany [mother of 7 children, 6 of them living] Mary, daughter, born Nov. 1887, age 12, born WI George, son, born Oct 1889, age 10 Henry, son, born Jul 1891, age 8 Clara, daughter, born Feb? 1893, age 7 Charles, son, born Apr 1895, age 5 John, son, born Dec. 1896, age 3