Changes
What has been added to this history and what has been corrected, newest first. Every addition and revision to the family tree, its sources and its open questions is recorded here as the research proceeds.
- New records. Added 67 sources and 44 facts for the family of Charles Henry Hall (1920–2001) and Estella May Alderson (1916–2008) and their seven children. The 1950 U.S. census in Multnomah County, Oregon (household 155), enumerates Charles, Estella, Kathleen Diane Hall (age 3) and infant Steve Hall (born 1949), while later records and Charles's 2001 obituary document their 1981–1993 residences in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Upland, California.
- New records. California vital indexes and public records document Kathleen's siblings: Steve Hall (born 1949), his 1970 marriage to Catherin J. Meehan, daughter Debbie Hall, second wife Miranda Carmona and sons Jason Patrick Hall, Matthew David Hall and James Edward Hall; twins Dale Edward Hall and David E. Hall (born 1952), wives Darlene B. Phillips and Cindy A. Berry, and daughters Cary Ann Hall and Amber Joy Hall (with Marc A. de la Motte); James Patrick Hall (born 1959) and son Brennan James Hall; Susan May Hall (born 1960); and Charles Hall Jr.
- Corrected. California marriage and birth records identify Steve Hall's first wife, recorded only as "Kathy" in the 2015 database, as Catherin J. Meehan (Catherine Jane Meehan), and show that James A. Hall's middle name is Patrick (James P. Hall / James Patrick Hall), correcting the middle initial "A." from the 2015 database.
- Corrected. Since the 6 November update, Anna Mežciema, her father Jānis Mežciems and her grandfather Jēkabs Mežciems had been shown as children of the wrong couples: Ancis Āboltiņš and Dārta Āboltiņa; Aleksandrs Martinsons and Zelma Āboltiņa; and Valdis Laimdots Sirlaks and Valda Katlapa. Two families had been given the same record number. They are now correctly the children of Jānis Mežciems and Līze, Jēkabs Mežciems and Maža, and Jānis Mežciems.
- Site. This Changes page is new, recording every addition and correction to the family tree, its sources and its open questions by date, and the home page's Recent discoveries now carry month-and-year dates so readers can see when each discovery was made.
- New relatives. Added 13 people across four branches (392 in all): Carrie May Newman's siblings Edward Newman Jr. (1875–1945), William Newman (born 1882), Lilly E. Newman (born 1882–1884) and Grover Cleveland Newman (1886/87–1949), children of Edward Newman and Harriet M Brate; Estella May Alderson's brother Elmer Ellsworth Alderson (1895–1944), Lola Lucille Alderson's husband Charles W. Helgerson and son Ronald C. Helgerson, and Yves John Kerbrat's brother Adrien F. Kerbrat (1926–2000); and five Priekuļi ancestors of Anna Mežciema: Jānis Mežciems, Līze Mežciema, Jēkabs Mežciems, Maža Mežciema and Jānis.
- New records. Added 53 sources and 112 facts. In Cēsis, Jaunrauna and Rauna, the 1847 marriage register records the wedding of Mārcis Gibboy and Anna Mežciema, birth registers give the baptisms of Mārcis (1848) and Kristīne Gibboy (1855), the 1834 Jaunrauna revision lists Jānis Sirlaks's widow Masche and sons Mārcis Sirlaks and Jānis Sirlaks, and Rauna revisions trace the Smukulis and Kajons lines. Six Army muster-roll and hospital-roster entries (Camp Lewis and Vancouver Barracks, nine roster entries in all) trace Charles Hall from October 1917 to April 1919.
- Parent links. The 1811, 1816 and 1826 Priekuļi soul and surname revisions trace Mārcis Gibboy from age 5 with his father Pēteris Ģibols at Ģiboli (1811) to an orphan farmhand at Švīguļi after Pēteris's death (1816) and to farmer of Podiņi upon marrying the widow Marri (1826), upgrading Mārcis's link to Pēteris and Laurs Ģibols's link to Ansis Ģibols from family tree to documented, and showing that Pēteris ("Knecht Peter Ansche Sohn", c. 1765–1811/16) was the son of Ansis Ģibols rather than of Juris Ģibols.
- Questions. Confirmed Marija Ģibols's mother Anne's maiden name as Mežciems (Meschzeem) from her 1847 marriage entry and the 1811–1834 Priekuļi revisions, and renamed Anna Mežciema accordingly. Ruled out Ede Kārkliņa née Danenberga as a relative of Alberts Danenbergs: Rūjiena parish birth and congregation registers show she was born on 19 April / 1 May 1860 at Ķoņu muiža in northern Vidzeme to Mārtiņš Dannebergs and Šarlote Zariņa, an independent Vidzeme line unrelated to the Courland Dannenbergs.
- Corrected. The 1811 and 1816 Priekuļi revisions correct two dates from Raimonds Voroņins's tree: Ansis Ģibols was age 53 in 1795 (born c. 1742, died 1805), where the tree had misread age "53" as birth year 1753, and Pēteris Ģibols lived c. 1765–1811/16, where the tree gave 1773–1821 by confusing him with Juris Ģibols's son Pēteris. Removed Lola Lucille Alderson's 1941 marriage to Anson A. Webster from her first marriage's record with Charles W. Helgerson.
- New relatives. Added Anna Smukule (born 3 September 1889 O.S. / 15 September 1889 N.S. at Lapuļi, Rauna; baptised 8 September 1889 O.S., Rauna births 1889 no. 243), documented as the younger sister of Emma Smukule and daughter of Dāvis Smukuls and Marija Kajone (confirming the question whether the unmarried Anna Smukule who stood godmother to Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka in 1912 was Emma's sister), and restored Peter McCabe to the tree as the documented father of Susan May McCabe.
- New records. Susan May McCabe's Oregon death certificate (informant Catherine Hall) gives her birth as 9 April 1886 in Ireland, her death on 6 February 1972 in Portland, and her father as Peter McCabe, confirming family tradition and reopening James Patrick McCabe, Katie and McCabe (Peter McCabe's daughter). For Charles Hall, the 19 April 1919 Final Payment Roll and three initial Army roster entries link serial number 2274478 and Company "A", 316th Military Police to his 22 September 1917 Mariposa induction, confirming his Comanche, Texas birth.
- New records. Washington vital records, censuses and city directories trace Irene Mary Barnhart (1899/1900–1971, the probable birth mother of Estella May Alderson under Estella's birth-mother question): her father Phil G. Barnhart's 1912 death by lightning, her 17 March 1917 Bellingham marriage to Henry L. Meyer ten months after Estella's birth, her children Jean Mary Meyer (1918–2001) and Charles Llewellyn Meyer (1919–1948), her 1940 marriage to Benjamin Larson and 1960 remarriage to Meyer, and her 15 February 1971 death in Bellingham.
- Parent links. Upgraded 72 parent–child links across 16 family lines from family tree to documented using 66 census, birth-index, marriage, consular and obituary records. Those records also supply the full names of seven relatives previously listed by nickname or surname alone: Fitz Gibbon (Jimmy, Paul Fitz Gibbon's father) (John Fitzgibbon), Jimmy, Paul Fitz Gibbon's mother (Nellie Riordan Fitzgibbon), Monya (Miriam Delabalt Phillips), de la Balt (Monya's man) (Cyril Delabalt), Jane W. (Jane L. Williams), and May Eaton's parents John Eaton and John Eaton's wife (James W. and Mary E. Eaton).
- Questions. Added 13 questions (128 in all): whether Susan McCabe's parents were Peter McCabe and Catherine Prunty of Belturbet, County Cavan (whose daughter Margaret died in Portland in 1935), two unplaced sons of that couple (Bernard and Henry McCabe), and ten unplaced Dannenberg entries in Dobele, Jaunauce, Lielauce and Blīdene-Stūri parishes. Ruled out the 1887 Ringsend Susan McCabe, Matthew McCabe of Donnybrook, and Oto Smukulis as Emma Smukule's brother after Rauna births 1890 no. 292 showed his parents were Jānis Smukuls and Anna Plētēna.
- Corrected. Set aside the impossible birth year 1753 on Raimonds Voroņins's tree entry for Ansis Ģibols (which had made him 26 years younger than his son Juris Ģibols, born 1727, and which Raimonds himself had flagged to check), and replaced an unindexed FamilySearch citation on Irene Mary Barnhart with her primary Washington marriage and death certificates.
- Site. The interactive family tree now uses a tidy two-way tree layout in the combined "Ancestors + Descendants" view as well as in the single-direction views, keeping every generation aligned in rows and routing same-generation marriage links cleanly around intermediate boxes.
- Corrected. Checked 30 newspaper and Social Security Death Index entries against the original pages: reclassified newspaper marriage-license notices for Elaine de la Balt (1932), Estella May Alderson (1934), John Grattan Fitz Gibbon (1953), Patricia Elfsten (1960) and Kalvis Danenbergs (1971) from marriages to license applications; moved Paul Fitz Gibbon's 1972 death record and Dr. Thomas Grattan Fitz Gibbon's 1957 obituary to the right relatives; fixed Dāvīds Zadvinskis and Inga Augenberga's 1999 residence to Dublin, Ohio; and removed an unsupported 1949 deportation entry on Alberts Danenbergs.
- Corrected. Checked the Latvian citizenship records against the original documents: deleted a 1935 Stabu iela census entry and a 1941 Kr. Barona iela house-register entry on Arvīds Fricis Danenbergs that were not in any held document (and had carried wrong birth dates for Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka and Liga Danenberg), and removed unattested birth-registry and statutory details on Peter Valentins Danenbergs and Eos Adelaide Danenberg.
- Site. Rebuilt the interactive map with a year-by-year timeline strip, region-named zoom lenses (Vidzeme, Kurzeme, Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest, England), and a collapsible chronicle column. Combined the map's chronicle into the Chronicle page so that each year's migrations, births, marriages, military service and deaths link directly to the map at that year, and withheld past as well as current street addresses of living relatives.
- New records. Added 215 sources, 356 facts and 48 places across 91 relatives from census, directory, Arolsen, church-book, newspaper and citizenship records. Highlights include the 1816 and 1834 Jaunrauna revisions, Edward Newman's 1844 Freethorpe baptism, USS General Howze transport rolls, the 1949 Mercer County arrival notice, Arvīds and Elvīra Danenbergs's 1955 naturalization notice, obituaries for Arvīds (1996) and Elvīra (2011), five Latvian citizenship records for Peter Charles Danenberg and his children, Eos Adelaide Danenberg's full name and 2018 birth year, and Robert H. Elfsten's full name.
- Questions. Attached the 1895 Vīstuči birth entry of Augusts Sirlaks and the 1884 Rauna marriage entries of Dāvis Smukuls and Marija Kajone to their people in the tree, closing their two unplaced-person questions and leaving 115 open questions on the site.
- Corrected. Set aside the FamilySearch tree's "immigration 1865" on Edward Newman as wrong: 28 January 1865 was his Union Army discharge for wounds received at Cold Harbor in Company A, 8th New York Heavy Artillery, placing his immigration between the 1861 Norfolk census and his March 1863 Buffalo enlistment. Reclassified the 2008 filing for Peter Valentins Danenbergs and Kathleen Diane Hall from a marriage to a biographical record, preferred Margaret Hall's 6 January 1919 birth date over 1918, and corrected Emma Smukule's baptism date to 14 February 1886 O.S.
- Site. Rebuilt the map to trace 144 relatives' documented stays (showing gaps in the record as hollow rings rather than inferred travel), added the Natural Earth world basemap, Follow mode, migration headlines and automatic regional zoom lenses, and withheld identity-document numbers (Latvian personas kodi and passport numbers) and living relatives' street addresses across the public site and tree exports.
- New records. Added the December 1941 – January 1942 residences recorded in the Cēsis church-wedding notice (Cēsu Vēstis, 9 January 1942) for Arvīds Fricis Danenbergs ("of Jelgava") and Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka ("of the Litene pharmacy"), and recorded the 20 March 2015 visitation and celebration-of-life service for Velta Skaidrīte Sirlaka from her updated Dignity Memorial obituary.
- Corrected. Reclassified the two St Anne's Lutheran Church (Jelgava) newspaper notices for Arvīds Fricis Danenbergs and Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka (7 December 1941) and for Alberts Jurciņš and Aina Modrīte Sirlaka (21 April 1942) from marriage events to marriage banns, as banns were read in the parish where a partner was registered and did not mean the wedding took place in Jelgava (which had previously drawn both couples to Jelgava and back on the map).
- Site. Launched version 2 of the interactive family map with a world frame and Latvia inset, 35 arrowed migration corridors between countries and U.S. states, a dockable chronicle column, and diacritic-insensitive search, judging each person's stays and gaps directly from the sources.
- New records. Added 78 sources and 136 facts for the California, Ohio and Wisconsin branches. University, patent and company filings trace the biochemistry careers of Peter Valentins Danenbergs (Case Institute of Technology, UC Santa Barbara, Wisconsin and USC) and Kathleen Diane Hall (Wisconsin, USC Laboratory Director, co-inventor on 39 patent documents, and founder and CEO of Response Genetics and Liquid Genomics), as well as the loss of their Altadena home in the January 2025 Eaton Fire.
- New records. Wolf Schubach's 2019 obituary and Devar Emet profile record his 1944 Bad Godesberg birth, 1959 Ohio immigration, John Carroll University education, Hebrew Bible translation, and co-founding of EXACTA Corporation (1976) and Exacta Graphics, Inc. (1985) with Milwaukee city librarian Līga Danenberg. Ohio records document pharmacist Kalvis Danenbergs, teacher and local historian Melinda Lee Berger, their son Justin Danenbergs (Ohio State pharmacy graduate), and his wife Barbara L. Greashaber's parents Dane Alden Greashaber and Irma Ann Burger (2018 obituary).
- New records. Added biographical, academic and career records for Peter Charles Danenberg (15 facts), Līga Irene Danenberg (16 facts, including USC engineering and business degrees, Response Genetics and NutraSculpt), Genevieve Elisa Symanski Nelson, Shayla Nadah Alamdari, Gavilan College purchasing agent Jeanne Marie Kerbrat, Morgan Hill school bus driver Fathollah Alamdari, Korean War US Army veteran Yves John Kerbrat (1924–1986, 1950–1952 service), software engineer Brennan James Hall, and Peter's notes on the Hall family's radiator shops, his aunt Susan Hall, and his uncles Charles, Steve and Jim Hall.
- Corrected. Closed three duplicate questions (117 questions remaining) and replaced broad locations with 13 specific farms, towns and cemeteries (238 places in all): Glāznieki, Podiņi and Rauguļi farms for Marija Gibboja, Mārcis, Anna Mežciema, Pēteris and Kristīne Gibboy, Līze Veidenbauma and Ernestīne Sirlaka; Lielbērze; Jaungulbene for Aina Modrīte Sirlaka, Alberts Jurciņš and Ņina Panšina; Bascom, Cleveland, Midland, Wilmington, Madison and Santa Barbara; and Mount Calvary Cemetery and Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Mausoleum for Susan May McCabe and Carrie May Newman.
- Site. Added Lives mode to the family map so visitors can watch relatives appear at birth, move along great-circle paths and fade out at death, drew map markers by place type (houses for farms, crosses for churches, headstones for cemeteries, tents for displaced-persons camps, anchors for ports and ships), and (on 31 October) placed minor children without separate records alongside their parents; and updated the public site so current street addresses of living relatives are withheld even inside source titles and ongoing date spans.
- New relatives. Added Irene Mary Barnhart (1900–1971, of Lynden and Bellingham, Washington) and John Smith (the stand-in name on Estella's 1916 Seattle birth certificate) as the probable birth parents of Estella May Alderson (born Phillis May Barns on 5 May 1916, original birth certificate and 1952 delayed certificate), connecting the Barnhart, Walker and Arbuckle lines directly to Irene, and recorded Shayla Nadah Alamdari as the mother of Eos Adelaide Danenberg (from Peter; 377 people in all).
- New records. Added 42 sources and 73 facts. Washington birth certificates for Charles Hall and Susan May McCabe's children in Vancouver—Margaret Ellen Hall (6 January 1919), Charles Henry Hall (11 June 1920) and Catherine Elizabeth Hall (12 February 1922)—give their father's birthplace as Texas on all three, fixing his birth at September 1890 and their mother's in Ireland around 1888, alongside 18 academic records for Peter Valentins Danenbergs and 41 new places (227 places in all).
- Site. Launched the interactive family world map—showing a dot for every place and a path for each person's dated records, with a year-range play control and branch filters—and updated the public site under Peter's 27 October rules so living relatives, their facts and photographs, Aina Modrīte Sirlaka's memoir, Raimonds Voroņins's photographs, all 148 archive images (including Arvīds Fricis Danenbergs's 1996 obituary), and all open questions (including the family story of Jewish ancestry) appear in full, withholding only living relatives' birth dates, addresses, emails and phone numbers, and unrelated DNA testers.
- New records. Added 5 sources and 27 facts from the 1850 and 1857 Priekuļi (Freudenberg) soul revisions. The 1857 revision at Rauguļi and Luste farms shows four-year-old Marija Gibboja (Marri) and her sister Kristīne Gibboy (age 2, along with brother Mārcis, 1849–1853) in the household of Mārcis Gibboy (age 50, born c. 1807) and his wife Anna Mežciema (Anne, age 38, born c. 1819), while the 1924 Cēsis address book page image and 1917 and 1919 Oregon adoption session laws were archived.
- Corrected. Separated two Priekuļi couples of the same name after the 1857 revision showed that Marija Gibboja's parents were Mārcis Gibboy (born c. 1807, son of Pēteris Ģibols) and Anna Mežciema (born c. 1819) at Rauguļi, rather than Mārcis Ģibols (born c. 1816, son of Jānis Ģibols and Masche, whose household with brothers Jānis and Dāvis is recorded at Ģiboli farm) and Anna Balodis (daughter of Bērtulis Balodis), who had no daughter Marija and whose Balodis ancestors are therefore not in Peter's direct line.
- Questions. Confirmed which Mārcis and Anne were Marija Ģibols's parents from the 1857 Priekuļi soul revision, resolving the conflict in Raimonds Voroņins's tree between the 1807 and 1816 households, and opened a new question on her mother Anne's maiden name (118 questions in all).
- Site. Published the site at danenberg.family, expanded the public tree to include living relatives connected through possible links (adding 23 living relatives from Raimonds Voroņins's tree, labelled as possible), applied the standard living-relative rule (birth year and town shown) to minor children as well, and replaced 12 cropped church-register images with full register pages showing the highlighted entry in context.
- New relatives. Added 122 people (93 blood relatives and 29 spouses, bringing the tree from 253 to 375 people) and 84 parent–child links from Raimonds Voroņins's MyHeritage family tree ("Dzimta") and Aina Modrīte Sirlaka's memoir. These extend the Sirlaks and Ģibols lines back to Ansis Sirlaks (c. 1739–c. 1815; the tree's compiler marks him as his own assumption) and his father Ansis, and Ansis Ģibols and his sons Laurs, Juris and Pēteris Ģibols, and add descendants in the Jurciņš, Stangainis, Grīnbergs, Veinbergs and Voroņins families, including Alfrēds Jurciņš, Ilze Stangaine, Jānis Sirlaks and Inga Sirlaka.
- New records. Added 4 sources and 510 facts. Washington State birth certificate no. 146-1916-005906 shows that Estella May Alderson was born Phillis May Barns in Seattle on 5 May 1916 to an 18-year-old Washington-born mother ("Irene Barns") and a father recorded as "John Smith", and that the record was never amended by a court adoption. Also added a c. 1911–1913 studio portrait of Marija Gibboja with her sons Kārlis, Mārtiņš Vilhelms, Dāvis and Augusts Sirlaks and Mārtiņš's wife Emma Smukule, 776 photographs from Raimonds Voroņins, and Peter's notes.
- Questions and corrections. Confirmed Estella May Alderson's 1916 Seattle birth entry as Phillis May Barns and downgraded non-Washington birth-mother candidates Irene F. Barnes (Minnesota) and Ruth Irene Barnes (Oregon) to unlikely because the certificate gives her mother's birthplace as Washington. Attached the Cēsis rural baptisms of Ernestīne Sirlaka (1860) and Reinholds Sirlaks (1862) to the tree, closing two unplaced-person questions, and opened 8 questions comparing Raimonds Voroņins's tree with our records, including Kristīne Sirlaka (born 1888), Marija Ģibols's parents and Arvīds and Elvīra's 1941 marriage (117 questions in all).
- Site. Lowered the threshold at which a person with no known death date is treated as deceased from 110 years to 100 years after birth (showing Ausma Sirlaka, Yves John Kerbrat and Karamollah Alamdari in full), added Eos Adelaide Danenberg and 21 living adult Sirlaks descendants documented in Aina Modrīte Sirlaka's memoir to the public site, and marked 25 pre-1918 Latvian church-book and soul-revision dates as Old Style (Julian calendar).
- New records. Added 11 sources and 4 facts. Courland soul revisions (1826, 1835, 1850 and 1857) for Gross-Bersen (Lielbērze) in Dobele parish record the adoption of the Dannenberg surname on 7 June 1835 by the family of the late carpenter Jurre (c. 1795–1832, listed as "Jurre Tischler" in 1826) and his sons Adam, Gotthard, Carl and Indriķis, while three 1918 Army muster rolls (September, November and December) place Charles Hall at Camp Lewis and Vancouver Barracks, and Peter confirmed Catherine Elizabeth Hall's death.
- Questions and corrections. Opened 15 questions (111 in all), including 13 on the Lielbērze Dannenberg family (the 1835 surname adoption, Jurre Dannenbergs and his sons) and a 16-year-old Susan McCabe on the Majestic in 1900. Ruled out the 1884 Gortskeagh Susan McCabe (Mrs. O'Brien of San Francisco in 1920), moved the 1918 Camp Lewis and Vancouver Barracks muster rolls from the 1920-born Charles Henry Hall to his father Charles Hall, and confirmed no Washington or Multnomah County marriage entry exists for Charles Hall and Susan May McCabe in 1900–1925.
- Site. Built the first version of the family history website with narrative pages for every person, family branch, source and open question, embedded 12 federal record images and 81 full-page archive scans with highlighted entry boxes, and linked 282 of 288 sources to locally archived copies and transcriptions.
- New relatives. Added 29 relatives (224 → 253) and 20 parent–child links from Aina Sirlaka's 1998 memoir "Vīstuči", sent by Raimonds Voroņins: Pēteris Sirlaks and Marija Gibboja's children Ernestīne (Johans, Irma, Viktors, Aksels and Rūriks Pirainens), Kārlis (Alvīne Sirlaka), Kristīne and Augusts Sirlaks; Tīlmanis; Mārcis's brother Jānis Sirlaks (1829–1901), Līze Veidenbauma, Ernestīne, Reinholds (Mīle, Emīlis) and Minna; Alma Āboltiņa's parents Ancis and Dārta and siblings Zelma, Voldemārs, Alīda (Aleksandrs Martinsons) and Alfrēds Āboltiņš; Valda Katlapa, Velta Stangaine and Pēteris Voroņins.
- New records. Added 81 sources and 110 facts across Latvia, California and Ireland. Rauna parish registers confirm the birth and baptism of Emma Smukule (born 6 January 1886, daughter of Dāvis Smukuls and Marija Kajone, married in Rauna in 1884) and the baptisms of four Sirlaks siblings (Ernestīne in 1879, Kārlis in 1881, Kristīne in 1888 and Augusts in 1895), while a July 1917 draft-lottery list names Charles Hall of El Portal, California, and the Mariposa Gazette has him leaving for Camp Lewis on 19 September 1917, tying the Comanche registrant to the 91st Division soldier.
- Questions and corrections. Confirmed Emma Smukule's 1885/1886 Rauna birth and parents (updating her mother's name to Marija Kajone), upgraded Kristīne Karnīte née Gibboy to probable, and upgraded Dāvis Sirlaks and Alma Leontīne Āboltiņa's links to Ilga, Valdis and Jānis Sirlaks to documented. Downgraded the 1884 Gortskeagh Susan McCabe to unlikely after tracing her 1904 and 1914 Ellis Island arrival records to Mrs. Frank O'Brien of San Francisco, and opened 49 questions (96 in all), including a County Cavan Susan McCabe at Quebec in 1905, the Hall–McCabe marriage, and Vīstuči farm.
- Site. Launched the interactive family tree viewer showing every documented, probable, possible and family-tradition connection, added an illustrated guide to the 1914 SS Lapland Ellis Island passenger list form, and translated the Latvian original of Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka's 1979 life story alongside the English version.
- New records. Added 34 sources and 17 facts for the Hall and McCabe lines in Washington, Oregon and Ireland. A Veterans Administration card links Charles Hall of Vancouver, Washington (Private, 316th Military Police, 91st Division, discharged 19 April 1919) to the Comanche, Texas birth date on his 1917 Mariposa County draft registration, while the 1920 Vancouver census, 1919–1922 Clark County birth indexes for Margaret Ellen, Charles Henry and Catherine Elizabeth Hall, and 1930–1950 Portland censuses trace Susan May McCabe to her 6 February 1972 death and Mount Calvary burial.
- Questions and corrections. Removed four unsourced placeholder parents from the 2015 database ("Peter Hall", "Peter McCabe" and their wives, 228 → 224), keeping them as weak questions (Peter Hall and Peter McCabe), and marked Winter Scott Alderson and Carrie May Newman as adoptive parents of Estella May Alderson while tracing probable birth mother Irene Mary Barnhart's Scottish ancestry. Opened Charles Hall's Comanche County identification as probable and tested two Irish births for Susan May McCabe—1887 in Ringsend, Dublin (died 1889) and 1884 in Gortskeagh, County Cavan (51 questions).
- Starting point. Imported the 2015 family database and Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka's 1979 memoir "My Life and Times (1912–1949)" into a cited-fact data model of 228 people, 89 families, 162 sources, 186 places and 42 open questions, with GEDCOM 7.0 and 5.5.1 exports (and, on 22 October, a 27-person blood-line pedigree export).
- New records. Traced three generations of the Sirlaks and Gibboja lines in Jaunrauna, Rauna, Priekuļi and Rīga through Latvian soul revisions (1816, 1834, 1850 and 1858) and parish registers: Jānis Sirlaks and Masche, Mārcis Sirlaks and Anna Sirlaka at Vīstuči farm, Pēteris Sirlaks (born 1847, married 1874, died 1896), Marija Gibboja's 1853 Cēsis baptism, the Rauna baptisms of Natālija Emīlija (1875), Mārtiņš Vilhelms (1883), Dāvis (1886) and Anna Sirlaka (1890), the 1911 Rīga St. Martin marriage of Mārtiņš and Emma Smukule, and Elvīra's 1912 baptism.
- New records. Added wartime, displaced-persons and US immigration records for Arvīds Fricis Danenbergs, Elvīra Antonija Sirlaka and Emma Smukule: Arolsen Archives registrations from Haunstetten and Regensburg (establishing Zelma Forstmane's maiden name and Emma's parents Dāvis Smukuls and Marija Kajone), the June–July 1949 voyage of the USAT General R. M. Blatchford from Bremerhaven to Boston, 1950 declarations recording Arvīds and Elvīra's civil marriage at Litene on 25 June 1941, the 1950 US Census in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio, and obituaries (1942–2011).
- Questions. Opened 42 questions across the Latvian, Irish and American lines, including the 5 May 1916 Seattle birth index entry for "Phillis May Barns" as the original birth record of Estella May Alderson (alongside her 1952 delayed birth certificate), Irene Mary Barnhart as her probable birth mother from a maternal-side autosomal DNA cluster descending from William Alexander Walker and Jean Arbuckle, Y-DNA haplogroup N-Z16980 and mitochondrial haplogroup H1c114, and third-cousin DNA match Raimonds Voroņins on the Dāvis Sirlaks branch.