Name and birthplace provided by Rosamond on death certificate. Enough background, let’s get to the reason for this post. Friends, family, fellow searchers…it is my great pleasure to introduce you to Rosamund Julianna Oesterreicher. Would you like another surprise? Then let me also introduce...
He then produced their marriage certificate in New York City, where they both say they were born in Plock, Russia. What Skip, no comment on that saying Russia? Also, who told the city they were from on their NYC marriage certificate? Almost nobody in my experience. They might tell the ...
In my last article, I looked at how you mightfind lost money from current accounts, Premium Bonds, child trust funds and more. But there could be other assets out there that you’ve forgotten, or never even knew about. Be very wary of anyone you find that’s looking to charge you mon...
There are also no pictures to remember her by. All there is to remember her by are two pieces of paper found in the records of Cayuga County: one certificate of her birth and the other of her death. I have visited many cemeteries to fill in gaps in my family’s history. I write th...
I always had this notion that if I’d find my birth family, I’d immediately fit in and life would go on as if I had always known them. But alas, that’s not the case, they are strangers to me. They have all led vastly different lives than me and that brings me to ask the ...
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Find Your Dead Cold genealogy, finding random ancestors Alice Lodge December 30, 2011byArwen Hoyt Family Tree Lottie’s other sister, Alice Dwight Berry Lodge, also had an obituary published in the Grosse Pointe News. The obit index reports her death as 1961-02-26 and printing of her obit...
Improve your fitness before your trip. This would probably be my number one tip. Gorilla trekking can be challenging, and you can make your whole experience a lot more enjoyable if you get in shape before you tackle it. Definitely practice hiking some hills if you can!
In hindsight, Meadows would associate what happened at Fort Benning with the first great trauma of his youth, the day in Cutler Ridge when he came across his birth certificate in his mother’s dresser. Here were two betrayals, two slashes at an identity not yet formed. The first, he felt...