• Lane Bradford Coulsell II and his wife Sarah planned to emigrate to Australia with their children in the early 1850's. They planned to make the journey in two trips in 1853, first Sarah with their two sons, then Lane with their three daughters. Sadly, Lane died of cholera in London while Sarah was at sea, the two older girls sailed without him. The youngest came alone in 1856.

Their oldest son, Lane Bradford Coulsell III born in London in 1834, likely became the patriarch of the Australian branch of the Coulsell family. An ancestor of our branch, Archibald's grandfather, James Samuel Coulsell I was born in London in 1821. Working back in time from Lane and James still leaves the goal of connecting the Australian and American branches of the family unfinished.

• The records of 16 year old George Coulsell may yet be found. He was one of a group of young men in transit to Doctor Thomas Stevenson's Childrens Home in Hamilton, Ontario in April 1905. George may have been the earlist Coulsell to arrive in Canada. Records for the institution can be found in the Library and Archives of Canada. The National Children's Home estimated that about 85% of the children remained in Canada. The remainder returned to England or went on to the United States.

• Ethel Emily Coulsell, a daughter of Archibald's Uncle Frederick Thomas Coulsell, married Ernest Bartholomeu Miles in Winnipeg on February 25, 1914. There may be decedents of Ethel and Ernest living in Canada, but no additional searches have been made.

• Alice May Coulsell, another daughter of Frederick Thomas Coulsell, married William Henry Thomas in Winnipeg on April 11, 1923. There may be decedents of Alice and William living in Canada, but no additional searches have been made.

• Minnie Seaford Coulsell, the daughter of Archibald's Cousin Charles Goodman Coulsell, married Joseph Frank Basteni in Winnipeg on October 30, 1923. Minnie and Joseph emigrated to the United States, but no additional searches have been made.

• George Henry Toseland, my father's close friend emigrated along with the family in 1923, and remained in California for some length of time. He married Mildred Mason in 1934. George and Mildred may have had a daughter, but no other details have been found. George died in Cochise, Arizona in 1982.

• The research that Doris McDonald and I have done over the years has lead us to conclude that the largest number of people living today with the Coulsell surname may be in Australia. We have not found any, other than our immediate family, in the United States nor any at all in Canada.

In his letters to me in 1980, Bill Coulsell sent a family tree that his cousin Jack Coulsell had drawn and a list of marriages from his great-fathers bible. Bill died in 1983, but his daughter Felicity had passed the information to a distant cousin Eric D. A. Patten. Eric and I corresponded during 1996 and 1997. Eric made several trips to London during those years to look for information about the family. He was especially interested in the possible connection to the Courcelles in France. One of his last letters included a large account, in French, from a Jean de Remy de Courcelles. It awaits translation.

• Archibald Coulsell's work on the H-4 Hercules Flying Boat while he was employed at Hughes Aircraft can possibly be confirmed. While the aircraft was being restored at its current home at the Evergreen Avaition Museum in Oregon, a list of workers was found painted on the fuselage. I spoke to the curator at the museum, he said he would check if the the names had been recorded.

• Ida Sophia Lofstrom's first husband, Joseph W. Sloan was my maternal grandfather. He left Ida prior to the birth of my mother in 1908. The divorce granted to Ida in 1910 may have resulted his never seeing his daughter. There is a record of a marriage of a Joseph W. Sloan to a Mabel L. Dietz in Vancouver, Washington in November 1910. Records of Joseph and Mabel following their marriage are yet to be found, perhaps this Joseph W. Sloan was my maternal grandfather.

• Helen Christina Lofstrom divorced John in 1902 for reasons never passed down to family members. Details of the recent discovery of his relationship with Belle London and the possibility of his admittance to the Western State Hospital may be lost to the passage of time. The hospital medical records indicate his middle initial was W and mention a brother, K. A. Lofstrom living in Forest Hills, Massachusetts in 1915. More information about John's brother has not been found.

• William E. Holmburg was identified as Ida Sophia Lofstrom's stepfather in an early photograph in my mother's album. The letter from William to Ida and his Identity Card were recently discovered among papers that Ida's daughter had inherited from her mother. Other than the address on the Identity Card, 142 Crocker Street, Los Angeles, no other information about William has been found.

• A family story tells of Helen Lofstrom's son John marrying a girl named Edna. The record of the marriage of a John Lofstrom to Edna Johnson on January 11, 1920 does exist, but no other information has been found. The other story of a marriage to a Russian girl and the birth of a son is even more elusive.

• A John W. Lofstrom appears as a lodger living at 110 Oak Street in the 1920 census of San Francisco. His age on the census record does not agree with Helen's son's known birth date but his place of birth, Utah, does.

• The 1911 marriage of Ida Sophia Lofstrom to Allan H. Lanier is another surprising discovery found among Ida's inherited papers. Allan, then 21 years old, was Ida's second husband and a resident, along with Ida, of Stockton, California. No other information about him has been found.

• Records of Ida Sophia’s third marriage to Otto Eaglin have not been found and even though he was involved in raising my mother and the father of Ida Leona, no photographs of him have been discovered.

As with Otto, records of Ida Sophia’s fourth marriage to Otto's younger brother Theodore Eaglin have not been found. There are photographs of Theodore and I can vaguely remember him. There may be decendents from his previous marriage to Pheobe Rayzor, both Otto and Theodore appear in other family trees.

• Leona Hannah Matthews, John and Helen Lofstrom's second daughter, died on February 13, 1980. Leona and her husband, Norman, had one son, Spencer, who married Emily Bean. Spencer and Emily had a son, Norman, who lived only six days, and a daughter, Penny Ann Matthews born February 2, 1953. My immediate family lost touch with Leona many years prior to her death and the location of her burial has not been found.