My grandmother, maiden name Helen Grace Pittman, supposedly born 'near' Laurel, Mississippi in 1924, had HD. I believe she died on 4/21/81. She married my grandpa Rickard Craig Zarecky Jr in San Antonio 7/16/56. She gave birth to my mom (Deborah Zarecky, 1/15/1959; & Richard Zarecky, 9/25/1957) in San Antonio Texas. They both died from HD. Supposedly she had like 6 siblings 'and they were all estranged.' No one has any more information about her family and I have no further records. I've been coming up empty on Ancestry.com. My mother returned to Texas from SD and travelled/homeless through the south and east, potentially to places that were meaningful to the Pittman side of the family: Laurel Mississippi, Asheville NC, Savannah Georgia, Palacios TX. While he was in the service my grandparents were in San Antonio, Killeen Texas, and Fairfield California before moving to Grandpa's home town of Colman, SD. My mom died 3/19/2014 in San Antonio, she had estranged herself from us~ 10 yrs. My mother and uncle's birth certificates list their mother's maiden name as Gaylord, interestingly, on ancestry.com, but the physical copies I have list 'Pittman'. Are you aware of any Gaylord/Pittman lineages? Or HD families in the south that may have placed their children for adoption? [Samantha]