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Dear Danielle,
If you go to the Social Security Death Index at http://ssdi.rootsweb.com you'll see a John LEGO Sr born 20 March 1886 and died April 1963. I would suggest that you order a copy of his Social Security number application. This has blanks for the name of the father and the name of the mother as filled out by the applicant. There is also a blank for birthplace which may just list a country but hopefully will give a specific city as well. If you click on the right hand column, a letter will be produced that can be printed and sent.
If John and/or Ann may have arrived via Ellis Island try http://www.ellisisland.org or search via Stephen Morse's site at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/ellisgold.html which enables broader searches such as starts with, etc.
Perhaps you'd find an obituary that would be useful. An index of obituaries appearing in the Johnstown newspaper is available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacblack/interest.html and if you find something of interest there, directions on ordering a copy from the Johnstown library are on the bottom of that page.
There is a wonderful Cambria County genealogical website at http://www.camgenpa.com which you may want to explore as well. Under courthouse records at that site are the names of people applying for marriage licenses in certain years. In 1906 John LIGA and Annie KRAMAR applied for a license. You can order a copy of this from the courthouse and you may be lucky to find useful information on the application. That would be a less expensive option than the Social Security number so perhaps you'd want to try that first. Sometimes the applications aren't as complete as you'd desire however.
Naturalization records would be another option to explore.
Good luck,
Karen
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