2 of the 4 addresses are the same, I believe, but there's nothing else to confirm whether this is the same person or different people (though the odds of that are unlikely). My main goal here is to learn efficient ways to do searches on Ancestry. I'm not sure I understand what the use of a Public Index is if it doesn't tell you what year it represents. I forgot to mention that this person also served in the U.S. Navy but when I search military records on Ancestry I get no results. Most of the work on the trees I'm doing has come from using Ancestry hints and getting data from other public trees, but I want to be able to independently find data on my own. I'm not sure that Ancestry is overly noob friendly, and I want to be sure that spending $300/year is not going to be an exercise in futility. I don't know this person's parents' names, but I thought that we could find public birth records and such on Ancestry. If I could find out where this person was born and/or lived in earlier years I could at least confirm whether this is the person I am looking for or not, but I'm afraid that I am overwhelmed by all the various databases on Ancestry and just don't know how to do this. Give me an ancestor from 200 hundred years ago and it's smooth sailing, but give me one of a generation one ahead of mine and I'm lost.