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Hi All,

As I look for leads in finding my great-grandfather Samuel, there is a 1925 New York State Census which asks about Citizenship and Naturalization location/date. The field summary reads: "If naturalized, when and where." Being able to decipher this will help me potentially confirm if this Samuel is the one I am looking for. Documents I have seen show Texas to be where his Petition was filed/stamped, etc, in 1918, while a soldier. (He originally lived in NYC and was born in Austria-Hungary).

The order of information seen in the attached examples:

Nativity: Austria
Number of years in the US: 30
Citizen or Alien: (looks like Alien Cit.)
If naturalized, when and where: ???

He was also stationed in Kansas, but there is no evidence he was naturalized there. Other entries in this enumeration for "If naturalized, when and where:" are "First papers", "Brooklyn 1919", "N.Y. City 1912", "NY City 1922".

Thanks for any help, let me know if you need more info.

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World War One / Great Grandfather, WW1 USA, Camp Bragg; Next steps?
« on: Saturday 17 December 22 03:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

Been a while since I have posted on Roots Chat. Previously posted in the handwriting forum. I have been researching my great grandfather. Family story goes, around 1917, he went to "work" one day and never came back. I believe I have discovered he joined the army. This was about the time the USA entered WW1. Through my research I have found that after returning from France he spent time in Texas and Kansas. He was originally in the 64th Regiment, a supply company.

Around 1920 he was re-enlisted and stationed at Camp Bragg (now Fort Bragg) in North Carolina. While there he became a Technical Sergeant for the "5th L.M.O.R.S. Ord Dept".

He had made a prior legal attempt to change his name while in Kansas in 1920 before Camp Bragg. After I contacted the County Clerk office where he was stationed they were able to find his record requesting a name change, but because he did not show up for the follow up hearing he was not able to change his name.

Back in Camp Bragg he decided again to change his name and this new name appears on a record from 1921, the most recent chronological record I have of him. In this medical record he is listed, it appears, as being in the Quartermaster Corps. Given his new last name is a common name (changed from Vogelfanger to Lewis) I know it will be more difficult to find him. My thought is to research the locations of where his department/company was stationed after 1921.

So my primary questions are for help on how to understand and research military regiments/companies.

* What is 5th L.M.O.R.S. Ord Dept? What is 5th specifically in this context? Is "Ord" Ordnance?
* Is Quartermaster Corps too generic for me to research further?
* Any tips for further research into military company movements etc?

I have attached a muster roll header from 1920 with 5th L.M.O.R.S. Ord Dept, and a snippet from the medical record in 1921 showing "QMC" for Quartermaster Corps.

Thanks for reading and your help!

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Hi All,

I am researching my great-grandfather. I found a potential lead on a veterans card, VA Form 3-7202a, similar to: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/48599/how-to-decode-read-us-veterans-bureau-form-7202. Anyone have experience with this type of card?

Since the document I found has a printed date of Jul 1948 in the lower left corner (similar to link above), is it safe to assume the information typed on the card (address, DOB) is accurate to Jul 1948 or is the typed information from a different time and the card is merely a reference to older information? I found a potential death record from March, but this card (apparently from Jul 1948) does not list a death date.

Edit: FamilySearch states: "Each card contains the name of the veteran as well as other personal identifying information such as home address at the time of enlistment" -- so perhaps the address would not be relevant to 1948. Let me know your thoughts, thanks!

Thanks for your help!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Maiden name: Weintraub?
« on: Tuesday 13 July 21 00:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

What do you think? Does the attached look like Weintraub? Ancestry said Weintrant, and FamilySearch on the same record said Weintranb. Additional research on FamilySearch points to many more instances of Weintraub. Ancestry and FamilySearch did not have the image of this record, so I ordered the PDF version. Glad I did!

I have attached examples of "t" elsewhere in the document which helps show that it is more likely Weintraub and not Weintrant.

Thanks!

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Hi all, new here. I have been looking for my lost great-grandfather. Story goes he went to work one day in 1917 and never came back. I am working on some additional research via tips I learned from a genealogy course. I think I may have my first breakthrough.

I have posted an original signature below (from 1912, primary source), and below that I have posted a signature found on a naturalization paper from 1919 via external research. I am interested in your thoughts as to whether these signatures could be of the same person, and therefore, a significant lead in finding my lost great-grandfather.

You will see in both signature examples: (1) The lowercase E looks like a backwards "3", and contains a trailing mark/slash. (2) The lowercase L is shorter than the lowercase F. In his other primary documents we have (postcards), the lowercase "E"s are consistent, like a backwards 3. His uppercase V has varied slightly, but remains similar to these examples. Also, his lowercase "L"s are also consistent with these signatures in other postcards. I have tried researching other handwriting styles, but I am assuming it would be unlikely for there to be two people with the same name (both first and last names in this case) and have the same two signature features, and have been born at roughly the same time and from the same region in Europe!

Looking forward to your replies! My friend told me about this site, and I am glad to see a supportive community here.

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