I have never seen a white Singer before its beautiful. The price was great with the cabinet also? WOW. I also am a genealogist and would be itching to locate a family member of the clipping. Try Social security death benefit with the name. Go to census on Rootsweb and see if you can locate this family and the list goes on. Check out Cynda's List put it in Google as I might have spelled it wrong. They have free data bases you can check out.