Forum: USA Genealogy

Anyone have an idea of the best place for searching in the US. I can find John Alexander Martin born 1887 living with his parents (Alexander Martin b. 1854 d. 1929 and Elizabeth Mahood b. 1860 d 1935) here in the United States in Harrison/Kearny, NJ than not sure where he went. Last I have him is...

I have a lady who married in 1912 and with her husband went to Boston, Mass. They were both aged in their very late 40's. She does not show up on any returning passenger lists. He returns to England in 1921 with a different wife. Either the wife he went with died or they divorced. Are...

My 2xgreat-grandfather's nephew, Alfred Herbert Newton, emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s and married a lady by the name of Zoe Emma Wells, born 23 October 1882, Kansas. Zoe's parents were Emma Irish, aged 21, and "H.A. Wells," aged 26, and they were married 30 Dec 1880, Spring Hill, Miami,...

I have traced my ancestor Sarah Lee ( nee ) Clark in the UK up until the 1851 census. After that Sarah and her husband Joseph disappear off the UK radar. Its been suggested that they may have emigrated to North America as did two of her siblings, but i have`nt been able to verify this yet. This is...

Hi. Just lucked on to this thread My grandmother's sister lost her 1st husband in Montana in 1914. The Coroner's report said "Miniing Accident". Cause of death was a fractured skull and broken neck. When I receivied the copy of the death certificate the sender indicated that. in the...

I have been asked by a friend if I could find out a bit more about a gentleman called Herbert Jaffe. The info that I have (which is very skimpy) is that he was born 15 May 1914 or '15 and from New York, and that he was in Mende, France from 1937 - 1938, studying at a teacher training school. I...

Hi Folks Can anyone tell me if they know of an online forum specifically to do with the History of New York. I am interested in finding out about the artistic scene in 1948 and 1949. My father who was an Artist aged 31 was in New York at this time. He stayed at the YMCA on West 23rd Street. I...

Ethel Yelland nee Beare was born in Cornwall,England in 1888 and she emigrated to the USA where she married Thomas Henry Yelland and they had 2 children named Roy and Verna. Ethel and Thomas divorced and Ethel was living in Houston,Texas in October 1917 and then Galveston,Texas. (Thomas Yelland...

Hi All, Basically my friend has asked me, as she knows I love all this family history stuff, to help try and trace her grandfather's roots. His name was Ellis Thompson Jackson, after moving to England from, we think, Morris Town New Jersey USA, he featured on "The Billy Cotton Show" , I actually...

Harry Sithney Bray arrived in Boston, MA. in July 1902. On July 2, 1909 he married Ethel G. Moore. In 2 separate US. census records for 1910 I found him and Ethel in 2 different addresses, but is definitelt the right couple. I have his W.W. 1 and 2 draft registration cards where he is still...

Within my family there is the story that my great-great grandfather either deserted his family in England or left with the intention of sending for them and never did. The story is that he went to the US. Interestingly, when my great-grandmother married, she listed her father as deceased, with no...

Hello everyone! (writing from ice-fogged Ottawa at minus 35 with the wind-chill! and there are actually people out skating in this ... brrrrrrr!:wacko:) I am trying to track down an obit for a young man who appears to have suffered a violent death in 1911. The death certificate is intriguing --...

My great grandfather's brother, Michael Donahoe, died in Brooklyn on Nov 27th 1914 and his death certificate says he was buried in Calvary Cemetery. I take this to be the Calvary Cemetery now in the borough of Queens. My cousin and I are thinking of going to the New York area later this year and...

Rose Ann Chesnut Ballentine was born Aug 1864 in Pennsylvania. Her father, Benjamin Chesnut is living with Rose and her husband, Gerald Ballentine in the 1900 census. He says he immigrated to the U.S.A. from Ireland in 1834 and yet I cannot find any earlier census records for him or his family....

Hi I have a handwritten chart of the Tazewell/Tanswell family which has obviously been copied many times and is now virtually illegible. It came from the following publications back in 1990 and I am wondering if any of them are still available and how I can get hold of a copy. I don't know where...

i am interested in finding the will of robert john davies who died in utica on 25th may 1961, could someone please tell me how on earth you go about getting a copy of his will or a copy of the obit please. this is my first time heading "over the water" im floundering a bit, help! please.

I got really excited that I was able to find the spouse of my grand uncle - prior to her marriage. It was for 1915 and was from the Kansas State Census Collection 1855-1925. It had her + her 3 siblings and quite a bit more. Her parents though were a bit of a joke - he is listed as E.F. +...