In message <479a20dc$0$47156$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net> Charani <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > > Mind you I have a similar problem, cousin Ruth Mary Ann Wall married > > a Russian emigré in 1881 with just a hint of a shotgun. he, > > Constantin Baranoff, then vanishes, possibly to Sacramento. Ruth > > then takes up with a married man, Thomas de Breton Godfrey, and > > they go off to New York in Septemebr 1887, abandoning her son and > > his wife and three children. Come 1899 they get married in Bishop's > > Stortford both claiming to be single. I can't find any trace of > > them in the US, or back in England after the wedding. > > Seven year rule coming into play perhaps in the claim to be single? > > You could have done with the 1890 US census for Ruth the same as I > could for DCA. Couldn't I just! > > People can't just disappear, no matter how much they try to evade and > avoid officialdom. That's what I keep telling myself. > Or is there must be some kind of black hole that > swallows some of our ancestors? Or is it alien abductions? ;)) > I was a little perturbed to find that Reunion has Alien Abductee as a status option. There's a few in my tree that I'm tempted to mark that way. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:04:46 +0000, Graeme Wall wrote: > I was a little perturbed to find that Reunion has Alien Abductee as > a status option. There's a few in my tree that I'm tempted to mark > that way. ROFL Someone at Reunion has a sense of humour and is obviously a family historian themselves :)) I've a few like that too, inc Uriah, plus a fair number who seem to have been beamed down by Scotty. -- http://home.comcast.net/~webact1/Collingridge/