So I really wasn't going to sit down in the office and work on this today.
But I came into the office to put something away and the new big bin of stuff lured me in. So here I sit. Not cleaning my house. Not switching the laundry.
But all might not be lost - I think we might be Scottish!
This is what I found today - pieces of a newspaper article that when pieced together are just about the entire article. The newspaper is from the People's Journal, Scotland from September 6, 1902. It talks about the death of David Edward - who was a "native of the Mearns". This is the problem. I know that Ethel's maiden name is Edwards. But I don't know what her parents names were. Yet. I do know that they had a farm and I do know that she had brothers - maybe even a set of twins. I do have this great photo of their farm and I like to believe that the people in the picture are her parents. But there are still holes in this theory. I'd like to be Scottish...
Here's the article.
Okay Ed - I posted these for you! The top is Paul W. Bien's birth certificate - you'll notice it's missing a name. But the names of his parents and the dates work out to be him. The second is his father - which is either W. Ernest Bien (for William) or Ernest William Bien. He was called Willie. But you'll notice on his death certificate there isn't even a middle initial. So I don't know. And then the last document is Paul W. Bien's honorable discharge paper. 
