You wrote, in part: Ira Williams bn 1891 married Ara Bullock in 1924 Texas. Ira died in 1943 Jack County Texas. Her Father was Elvis Bullock bn 1877 MO died  CA 1942 and Flora Amburn bn 1880 ILL and died in Texas Ira and Ara are my Aunt and Uncle. Response: I believe you wrote that you did not know their origins. This is why census work is so important to genealogists. More and more of these censuses are online, thanks to diligent volunteers. (The pay-for ones are not always legible, rather disappointing.) See what the genweb may have for your counties. If you can find these people in the censuses from 1880 forward to 1920 or luckily 1930, you MAY be able to find the birthplaces of their parents. I do not remember the specific questions in the 1900 forward censuses, but I KNOW the 1880 census (which the LDS Fam Hist Lib has now put online) asks each person enumerated where his parents were born. Look in the far right columns. >From the 1880 census, I found that my Texas Williams great-grandfather (not in the neighborhood where your folks were), who himself had been born in Kentucky ca 1818, had a father who was born in North Carolina, his mother in Kentucky, indicating a Kentucky wedding. This information, with some other documents, including old letters from Kentucky, got me back to Colonial North Carolina and from there back to Southside Virginia--four generations! One cannot believe everything written in the census--depending on the knowledge of the person who gave the information (sometimes an uninformed wife, or worse, a child)--and what the census-taker decided to put down. But, work with other documents which may be available, depending on the time and the place. These may be voters' lists, tax lists, court records, deeds (love them), probates (great, but don't always give info you need to complete a family group sheet.) Hope you find your folks. E.W.Wallace