Here's a puzzler.  One of my great-grandmothers, Mary Etta Day, was reportedly born in either Bay City, Michigan, or Kincardine, Ontario, in 1868, according to one source.  In the 1901 Canadian Census records and the 1930 US Census, it was confirmed that she was born in Canada.  But on the Border Crossing and Immigration Records out of Detroit when she immigrated on August 11, 1913, with her two youngest children, Delbert and Ellen, she was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and had been in the country previously from about 1869 to 1884.  The year 1884 was when she was supposed to have married David Henry Burke, and the couple lived in Canada from then until his death in (unconfirmed) AuGres, Michgan, in 1901.  The trouble lies in that I haven't yet been able to find verification of her birth or marriage in either place.   She's been almost as elusive as Hartley Fitzgerald, John's grandfather, and another great-great grandmother, Marguerite Beausoleil/Margaret Bosley.  Although I was able to turn up records for Mary and several children, I wasn't able to find a crossing record yet for the child I was looking for: Basil.  Hopefully another time.

The nice thing about the border crossing records is that it lists the very basics of her physical appearance.  Mary Etta Day was 5'3" tall with brown hair and eyes.

What's new today?  More LaClair photographs in the 1950s section.