There is nothing more frustrating than having a puzzle missing one more piece. I was able to trace down, by descent, to Francis Scott Key's Grandchild, Generation Three, (Mary Nevitt Steel) who married Dennis Claude (which is where our family comes in). There is no reference to any of their children though, they just fall off the map. So I had to go backwards by ascension from ours, and got up to Herbert Claude (Generation 5)

I have separate confirmation from another lineage book that Herbert Claude is the greatgreatgrandson of Francis Scott Key.

All I have to do is find that missing Generation 4, linking Dennis Claude to Herbert Claude, and wala, all done with family link to Francis Scott Key, and vicariously to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Of course, I could have completely flubbed up and missed another "Claude" relative in there somewhere that tracks to a different child of Key, but I didn't find one on a search of two separate lineage charts. On the flipside, all of the information we were ever told could be wrong and we may not be related at all... though I doubt that from what my grandmother and great aunt have ever told me.

Enter mad rush of emails to my Great Aunt Irva for information about who may have been her great grandfather. If this doesn't work, I'm going to have to dig for public records.

Headache, headache, headache.