Cheryl, many THANX for all your hard work. I had already run out of steam when I posted this question. In addition to those names, Barbara was Bertha in all records up to about the time of her marriage to Charles and Jeannie is incorrect - it's Jenny or Jennie everywhere except the one place - the title on Find a Grave - and even the photo of her headstone there shows her as Jennie.
I figured that this would be a welcome relief from the usual problems I deal with - places that defy identification more precise than "Eastern Europe" and names that look like a random collection of letters that defy pronunciation and do not appear the same in any two records - often in as many as four different languages in these records with no way of even knowing what language it is. Barbara turns out to be just as bad - she started life as Bertha born in England (ah - a language I thought I understood), then immigrated to USA twice - the first time to Saint Louis, Missouri and 3 yrs later to Memphis, Tennesee. Chasing down records feels like I'm playing a shell game - nothing is where I expect it to be.
THANX also for giving me the opportunity to vent!
