Forum: USA Genealogy

OK folks this may sound stupid but I'm blowed if I know the answer. On UK marriage certificates, the maiden name and any other names are indicated -if married previously. This makes it pretty easy to track the course of a lady's life. Does the U.S. require the same detail? I have a lady...

Daniel English, Born: 12 Aug. 1849 in Prince Edward Island or New Brunswick, Canada (he changes his mind on census records), Married Elizabeth Cummings on 12 Sept. 1871. I have yet to find one census where they are both on it or their actual marriage record, or with any of their children. The only...

Hi Everyone, I am trying to trace the parents of the above. he was born in New York and we think his father's name is John W Ferris, we dont have a birth date or place of birth. I am researching this tree for a friend in Montreal who is trying to find out what part of Britain this line of...

During WW2 the 820th Ordnance Base Depot Company was stationed at Lockerley, near ROMSEY, Hampshire, UK, in 1943 and 1944 as part of Operation BOLERO; the Commanding Officer was Captain Duane M HART. Local history groups in Romsey are researching the camp and would love to hear from anyone who was...

Good morning to all our Forum members in the USA. This query is by way of asking for general information, more out of interest than anything else, and not a specific research query. I have traced a great uncle of my wife's who "disappeared" in the UK and was never heard of again. He...

I know there are many people on this forum who have had great success in tracing overseas ancestors, but I have only just made my first foray overseas whilst helping my wife with her research after 25 years or more concentrating on my own. One of the legends in her family is that “Uncle Herbert...

On the off-chance that such a document still exists, what information is likely to be contained there-in? The couple appear to have been born not in Alabama. He was born in Georgia and she in Tennessee. Records of births seem to have been destroyed during the Civil War. If anyone feels...

I have worked very hard trying to trace a member of our family and am still coming up empty handed. My ancester, Andrew C. Macaulay, was born in Scotland in 1839. His parents were Marg Elliot and Samuel Macaulay. Andrew moved to New York at some point. We believe that he immigrated during the...

The chap named above is my Great-Grandfather. He was born in Phillack, Cornwall on March 13, 1860. The early years of his life were tough. His parents, by the time he was born, had already had 6 children. 2 had died very early in their lives . His mother died when he was 7 and his father died when...

Since I'm striking out my Ball's in Australia, I'm searching a little closer to home - U.S.A. - that is. It would appear , that the grandson of William Ball - William John Redvers Denton Ball - married a lady by the name of Hilda. From what I have been able to find, Hilda is the 2XGreat...

hi, I need help looking for my Great uncle CARROLL LEE and my Great auntie Norah Lee nee Mountian. My great uncle Carroll was born in America what part I do not know, dont even know when he was born or who his parents are?! All I know is that he was in the army he was a GI. He married my...

Hi, would anybody be close enough to Lakeview cemetery to take a photograph of Howard and Anna Cease interred Section G, Lot No.92. Thanks

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 am trying to find the birth of Doris Burden around 1915 to George (Alexander Albert) Burden and Rosina. also the deaths of George and Rosina which will be after 1940 any ideas thak you

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...

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...