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Europe / Translation from German please
« on: Monday 01 June 15 22:19 BST (UK) »
Can anyone provide a translation for this entry in the Jewish registers of births, marriages and deaths please
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United States of America / Where were they headed?
« on: Monday 01 June 15 14:07 BST (UK) »
Relations of mine travelled to the USA in 1919 and they appear in the Ellis Island Passenger lists. Their final destination is given as:- N.M. Mexico City. As far as I can find there is/was no Mexico City in New Mexico. So were they headed for somewhere in the state of New Mexico, USA or Mexico City in Mexico?. If it helps their fare was paid by The Anglo Mex trading company who seemed to have been involved the supply of mining hardware.
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Europe / Help with an address in Vienna
« on: Tuesday 26 May 15 11:30 BST (UK) »
I have found reference to a family member, Frederic Elijah Wheeler, belonging to The Royal Historical Society. In the RHS Transactions his address in 1893 is Lordship Park, London. Lordship Park is where he and his family lived from the 1880's. In the 1894 Transactions his address is VIII., Langegasse 7, Vienna. He uses this address until at least 1899. Can anyone tell me what was at this address or point me in the direction of where to find out. Unfortunately I don't read German.
Thank You.
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United States of America / Adoption in America
« on: Monday 15 September 14 16:42 BST (UK) »
I would like to know something about adoption in the USA and Pennsylvania in particular if there are state laws/regulations involved.
I have come across and ancestor born in 1916, sadly her mother, my common ancestor, died a few months after her birth. in the 1920 US census she is recorded with her father boarding with another family. In the 1930 US census she is recorded as the adopted daughter of the same family. I know that her father re-married in 1928 in Canada. In 1940 she is married but still living with the same family. All records I have found for her and her family show she lived at this address for her whole life. From her and her children's obituaries which I have found on line she seems to have taken the surname of her adopted parents and used it, in the American custom, as a middle name. I have found only one reference after 1930 which links her to her birth name and that is her burial record which has a note `nee (insert birth surname here). This burial record does match all other records though. What is the official line on birth names after adoption? Wouldn't an official adoption have made it `illegal` to make reference to her birth name once officially adopted? Could this have been an un-official adoption?
I have come across and ancestor born in 1916, sadly her mother, my common ancestor, died a few months after her birth. in the 1920 US census she is recorded with her father boarding with another family. In the 1930 US census she is recorded as the adopted daughter of the same family. I know that her father re-married in 1928 in Canada. In 1940 she is married but still living with the same family. All records I have found for her and her family show she lived at this address for her whole life. From her and her children's obituaries which I have found on line she seems to have taken the surname of her adopted parents and used it, in the American custom, as a middle name. I have found only one reference after 1930 which links her to her birth name and that is her burial record which has a note `nee (insert birth surname here). This burial record does match all other records though. What is the official line on birth names after adoption? Wouldn't an official adoption have made it `illegal` to make reference to her birth name once officially adopted? Could this have been an un-official adoption?
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Paranui Hill, Whangarei
« on: Monday 27 January 14 21:40 GMT (UK) »
Can any one tell me exactly where Paranui Hill was/is. My Great Great Aunt, Elizabeth Reed (nee Wild) died when the horse pulling her buggy bolted down Paranui Hill. Google returns many results - nearly all relating to this accident. Another places it "about 3 miles east of the post office" in 1930 but I can not find it on any map, old or new. As the horse bolted from outside their house it would give me a pretty good reference point.
Link to article re: accident: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19080302.2.89&srpos=3&e=-------10--1----2paranui+hill--
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Link to article re: accident: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19080302.2.89&srpos=3&e=-------10--1----2paranui+hill--
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / A burial in Harmondsworth Cemetery
« on: Monday 02 December 13 13:45 GMT (UK) »
I'm looking for details of a person called Rose buried, or at least commemorated, in Harmondsworth cemetery. My mother's grandparents, Oliver Richard Offord and Alice Offord are buried there and my mother recalls that a Rose is commemorated on the kerb stone of the grave but has no idea who Rose was. I have possible candidates on my tree but with no further details can not name this Rose with any certainty. If any one has, can obtain, or suggest where I can obtain, further details it would be much appreciated.
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Oxfordshire / A parish in Oxfordshire?
« on: Saturday 09 November 13 23:42 GMT (UK) »
I have a relative whose place of birth in the 1851 census is given as Oxfordshire, Terval, and in the 1861 as Oxon, Weston Turvel. I have found North and South Weston in Thame parish and the parish Weston-on-the-Green. I have also found Weston Turville in Buckinghamshire. Is there any place in Oxfordshire which might be the place referred to or is the county mis-recorded in both censuses?
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Jesse Who of New York
« on: Monday 17 June 13 22:16 BST (UK) »
Help please with the surname of Jesse of 108 Exchange Street
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United States of America / Searching the US census
« on: Saturday 15 June 13 20:32 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know if it is possible to search the US censuses by address?
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