Sigh of relief. Both families picked. Thus the research begins!

I did a brief locality survey, etc for Carroll County, MD, and I'm pumped. The family lived in Carroll, Frederick, and Baltimore Counties. My primary is Susan Catherine Waesche, daughter of Charles Albert Waesche, born in 1870.

First order of business is a locality history. That'll give me the historical and social context that will drop a lot of clues... Jinkies.

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/m9n95i