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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: dean.wendy on Saturday 09 March 19 03:14 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Looking to make contact with a local Identity that would have information on finding out who my grandfather was.
My Father was born in the Leeston area in 1935, he was from a local farming family. He was adopted by his grandparents. His biological father was taken to court for paternity but due to no way of proving it they were unable to confirm he was my father's dad. I have heard that there was a lot of talk around town so someone may no something.
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Have you looked in the Newspapers?
I’ve seen other paternity cases reported.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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Thanks cant find anything. Do you no how I can look at the census reports for about 1920 to late nineties. May be able to track down the family name through that.
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There are no NZ census records. They get destroyed.
You could try electoral rolls which are on Ancestry.
The local genealogical society,
Hope for a DNA match.
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Hi,
As you have posted on the Resources and Offers board, (easily done) I have asked a moderator to move this to the Main Board, where more Chatters should see the thread.
Cheers
KHP
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Thankyou. :)
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Thanks cant find anything. Do you no how I can look at the census reports for about 1920 to late nineties. May be able to track down the family name through that.
Hello.
Where did you look? There was at least one reported case involving a Leeston couple in March 1936.
Won't publically mention names, in case it involves the living.
You are welcome to PM a surname, if you would like a member to do further searching from their resources for you.
Alan.
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A previous thread ...
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=808731.msg6681736#msg6681736
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Hello.
Primary school enrolments may be a way to go for looking at names of potential interest, and if so, earlier published school reunion books may contain enrolment lists. [Local public libraries]. In more recent years the NZ Society of Genealogists, and branches, have published lists for members to research.
However later published versions abide by the current privacy legislation, so do not list the potentially living. Therefore 100 years pre their publishing date.
Have sent a PM.
Alan.
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This may or may not be of interest.........
From Papers Past:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NCGAZ19360306.2.27?query=maintenance%20&start_date=01-03-1936&end_date=31-03-1936&snippet=true&title=LT,OO,SUNCH,TEML,THD,TS,WDA,SCANT,NCGAZ,ASHH,AG,AMBPA,CHP,EG,GLOBE&type=ARTICLE
Letters of Administration [without a will].....
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PN-43QH?i=190&cc=1865481
[Note: there is mention of an adoption in the documents.]
Minniehaha.
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You are researching the origins of your father, born 1935. Is your father alive?
Your father knows that you are using a public forum?......and he has agreed to this?
Do you have his birth record..........the document?
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Yes I am aware it is public. At this stage I just need resources to find information. Also if someone has anything and It does concern any names then I will be using PM.
Thanks
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Also if someone has anything and It does concern any names then I will be using PM.
Thanks
This may or may not be of interest.........
From Papers Past:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NCGAZ19360306.2.27?query=maintenance%20&start_date=01-03-1936&end_date=31-03-1936&snippet=true&title=LT,OO,SUNCH,TEML,THD,TS,WDA,SCANT,NCGAZ,ASHH,AG,AMBPA,CHP,EG,GLOBE&type=ARTICLE
Letters of Administration [without a will].....
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PN-43QH?i=190&cc=1865481
[Note: there is mention of an adoption in the documents.]
Minniehaha.
Hi Wendy
... just wish to point out that the "adopted person" referred to in the above record - and mentioned too in an attached Will filed with these papers, is a man who was born in the year 1921 - and who married in the early 1940's.
[There are ample records available to substantiate this finding - although in some instances there are slight variations in spelling of a forename and the surname. ]
Added for clarification ... and so you don't go "barking up wrong trees". ;)
~ Lu
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Thanks will look into it. The child (my father) was not put into child welfare but was raised by his grandparents.
He wasn't formally adopted but legally fostered.
Wendy
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Thanks will look into it. The child (my father) was not put into child welfare but was raised by his grandparents.
He wasn't formally adopted but legally fostered.
Wendy
Hi again Wendy ... just in case you misunderstood why I'd posted in response to the "Letters of Administration" record. ???
It was to "eliminate this adopted man, whom a number of records show, was born in 1921" (and you'd already stated previously that your father was born 1935. )
~ Lu
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Hi Wendy,
Only you will know whether or not there is a connection......
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19370120.2.126?query=paternity&start_date=01-01-1937&end_date=31-12-1937&snippet=true&title=LT,OO,SUNCH,TEML,THD,TS,WDA,SCANT,NCGAZ,ASHH,AG,AMBPA,CHP,EG,GLOBE&type=ARTICLE
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19370113.2.124?query=wallingford%20chan&phrase=2&start_date=01-01-1936&end_date=31-12-1937&snippet=true&title=LT,OO,SUNCH,TEML,THD,TS,WDA,SCANT,NCGAZ,ASHH,AG,AMBPA,CHP,EG,GLOBE&type=ARTICLE
Minniehaha.
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Thanks
Am looking into it now.
Thanks
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No connection thanks
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Have you tried the Leeston Library for electoral rolls?