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Message:: [QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 3947952, member: 13464"][USER=14863]@Russell Leiner[/USER] - your advice re: asking family members is true. I'm fortunate; at least on my maternal side - that Grandma and Mom were interested in such things - so photos have names on backs and Grandma wrote down what she knew of genealogy and Mom continued the work. Not so much on my Dad's side; my mother asked questions - but no one would answer - whether they didn't know or wouldn't say is unknown. It wouldn't hurt to check backs of photos if you have any...sometimes they did write on them. Debora's advice about tracking down paperwork is spot on. Hopefully you can find a lead. I will say however; that not everyone DID have a middle name. My maternal Granddad did not... a plain "John" first name and a last name like dozens of others in the area of Cornwall England that he immigrated from. LOL... Mom had a time doing the genealogy on all the John's, James', Johnson's, and William's that were used over and over - and over! Odd also that he had only his first name as he had 20 brothers and sisters; he was the second oldest. All his siblings had second names... go figure. Then he was the "odd man out" as he is the ONLY one of 21 to have come to the US.  No cousins here... sigh! Cheerio, Leslie[/QUOTE]