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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Records for an immigrant in 1964/1965 - Germany to US?
« on: Thursday 16 January 20 17:36 GMT (UK)  »
I have a grandmother who immigrated to the United States in 1964 or 1965 from Germany. She had married an American serviceman then stationed in Germany and presumably was allowed in on those grounds. She is now deceased and was never naturalized as a US citizen.

Are there any visa applications or immigration records which might exist for her? If so, what are my options as far as access? It appears NARA has visa records for this period, but they are not currently available. I would welcome any information about this or other records that might be helpful.

Thank you!

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Canada / Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« on: Tuesday 10 September 19 20:32 BST (UK)  »
This is a Quebec Catholic burial record from 1802. It seems to say that she died of a serrement (if I'm reading it correctly)--a pinch/cramp/constriction? She had just given birth a few weeks ago. Any idea to what medical condition this might have referred? Links to an old French medical dictionary?

Thanks!

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United States of America / Naturalization records for 1890s Georgia?
« on: Friday 17 May 19 01:00 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for naturalization records for Augusta (Richmond County), Georgia in the decade between 1890 and 1900 and am coming up empty on where to find them.

The Ancestry database of GA naturalizations does not contain anything earlier than about 1918. I also contacted NARA-Atlanta and they confirmed they have nothing earlier than the turn of the century. Still waiting on responses from the Georgia State Archives and the Augusta-Richmond County Library but I don't have very high hopes.

I'm not sure which court I need, though I would guess the Superior Court is a good bet. My only clue that this ancestor was naturalized comes from federal censuses.

Help? Thanks in advance!

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United States of America / Marriage applications for Richmond County, Georgia?
« on: Saturday 27 April 19 01:32 BST (UK)  »
Is anyone aware of the location of marriage applications for Richmond County, Georgia, ca. 1890?

The licenses and certificates are online at Ancestry (etc.) and I've already found the one I need, but am wondering if there was a separate application filled out previously which might have more biographical information.

Possible locations? Should I just contact the Richmond County court?

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United States of America / Seeking info on an orphanage in Texas, 1960s
« on: Tuesday 25 September 18 02:05 BST (UK)  »
Where might I find information that would help me identify an orphanage? It may involve the word "Sunshine" and was in business in or near Fort Worth, Texas in the late 1960s.

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Other Countries / Mexico - finding records?
« on: Wednesday 06 June 18 20:59 BST (UK)  »
Overarching question: how do you identify the proper civil and Catholic jurisdictions for Mexican localities? Is there a gazetteer out there that says "If your ancestors lived in this town, they attended this parish." ??

More specifically: how do you determine if a locality has its own civil registration office or whether it would be covered under a larger jurisdiction? I'm accustomed to using the Family History Library and its catalog, but am finding no entry for this specific locality. Can't tell if that means they just don't have records for the town or if none exist in the first place because its births would have been registered elsewhere.

Thank you!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Surprise Southern Europe result?
« on: Monday 21 May 18 19:07 BST (UK)  »
Background: My family tree consists mostly of individuals who have been in the United States since the 1700s. All lines as far as I have been able to ascertain them within six generations are either from Germany or the British Isles/Ireland. The only more recent exceptions to this timeline are (1) the grandparents of my maternal grandmother (born 1909) who immigrated to Indiana from Germany in the 1840s; and (2) my own maternal grandmother, who came to the United States from Germany in the 1960s having married an American. Nearly all of my German ancestry comes from the region between Stuttgart and Frankfurt (Westphalia, Rhineland, Hessen).

Why, then, do I have a cumulative 13% of my Ancestry.com DNA results from Southern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula? I understand the mixture of peoples and populations that occurred in Europe; does that explain this? Could that mean that one of my more recent 20th century German ancestors, for example, had more recent Iberian/Greek/Italian ancestry themselves?

PS - MyHeritage shows me at 100% Northern and Western Europe only, though I transferred my raw DNA from Ancestry there rather than taking their own test. Is this significant?

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Other Countries / Identification of Greek town?
« on: Tuesday 24 April 18 23:27 BST (UK)  »
A 1912 Greek immigrant's passenger list claims he was from "Beline," Corinthia. His U.S. naturalization papers say "Vellena." Obviously, they're phonetically similar, but to which actual city in Greece is this referring? 

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Other Countries / Divorce in Puerto Rico?
« on: Saturday 31 March 18 04:40 BST (UK)  »
Hello all!

I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of information on the historic status of divorce in Puerto Rico? I've got a couple who I've proven divorced there in 1918, which was surprising to me. I would think that in a Catholic country such a formal separation would have been nigh impossible, but perhaps Puerto Rico's connection to the United States made it easier?

Help! Thanks!

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