Marilyn, Thank you for the response. I have researched my family line back to the early 1600's. Where I am running into difficulty is when my grandfather came to the US (from Newfoundland). He came over with his brother around 1925, then several years later, according to information in Newfoundland, my great-grandparents came over with two daughters. At that point, my family pretty much disappears. I can not seem to locate ANY information on this family other than verbal info my father and aunts have gievn me. They didn't even know what their grandfather's name was. The only information I have on them comes from my father and an old navigation book passed down through the generations. This pointed me to Newfoundland where the listers there have been amazingly helpful. My grandfather (Frank Penney)was supposedly in the Merchant Marines and was rarely home. My father tells me he was born and grew up in Middletown and has told me stories of his childhood but doesn't know much about his family other than he had an Uncle Bob. My aunts claim that the church where my grandparents married had burnt down and that the records were destroyed. This really isn't much to go on especially since I live in California. I have been compiling this family history for quite some time and was planning on giving him a family history album for Father's Day. I would have liked to have at least been able to tell him when and where his parents were married, and what happened to his grandparents, and aunts. I know his uncle had married and passed away in Middleton as I have located his SSDI. I only met my grandfather Frank twice, and was lucky to have my children meet their great grandma Mae before she passed away. Thank you. Christine Elkins [email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > CTMIDDLE-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 105 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [CTMID] Middletown look up [Chris Elkins <[email protected]>] > #2 Re: [CTMID] Middletown look up [[email protected]] > #3 [CTMID] Re: Borden Article in NEHG [[email protected]] > #4 Re: [CTMID] Re: Borden Article in [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from CTMIDDLE-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [CTMID] Middletown look up > Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 18:05:15 -0700 > From: Chris Elkins <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hi list: > > I am still searching for information on my Penney family. Are there any > volunteers on the list that would be willing to look up vitals for me? > Also, I believe my father and his siblings attended school there. Does > anyone have old year books from probably the late 50's. > > William Frederick Penney (my Dad) > Albert Penney (his older brother) > Beth Penney (sister- may be Elizabeth) > Joyce Penney (sister) > Sharon Penney (sister) > > Their parents were Frank E. Penney and Mae (Harrington) Penney. A > marriage record would be great, too if any one has access. > > Thank you in advance for any time someone might have to offer! > Christine Elkins > San Luis Obispo, California > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [CTMID] Middletown look up > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 00:19:24 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Chris, > > I went back and read your first posting. The information for which you > are asking is too current. It affects living people. Birth records in CT > are closed for 100 years. Personally, I don't even look up this type of > information for others. > > However there are things you can do for yourself. First you can get a > copy of your father's birth certificate. No one else can get it for you. > Second you can get a copy of your grandfathers death certificate.For > information on how to do this go to website for the City of Middletown at > www.cityofmiddletown.com Look for Vital records. It is part of the > Health Department. All vital records in CT are found in the town where > the event occurred. There are no county records. > > Second contact you relatives and find out as much information about the > family from your aunts, uncles and cousins. Find out vital information > about you aunts and uncles from their families. Since your father was > born in the 1940's try to find out the name of the hospital where he was > born. Don't assume it was in Middletown. He could just have easily been > born in a hospital in Hartford or New Britain, or even Meridan (if there > was a hospital there) The more you know about your dad's siblings, the > more you will know about your family. Two important questions to ask > about the birth, death, or marriage of any relative in the 20th century > is where did it happen and where was the family living at the time. For > instance when my mom passed away in the mid 1990, she died in a New > Britain Hospital, but her residence was Newington. Be willing to share > information about your family with your relatives. > > As you get information from your family, use the information to find > obituaries and to locate the family in the census records. > > Third, look for your family by focusing on your grandfather and > grandmother. You said that your grandfather had a brother who died in > Middletown, but you don't say when. Types of information to include are > names, birth and death years or approximate estimate, and recognizable > stories that others in the family micght also know, Places they lived. > Anything that will help others recognize your unique family as their > unique family. This also will help to take the focus off living > individuals. Many people don't like it when relatives publicly disclose > their personal information. And it is something that is frowned upon by > genealogists. > > Hope this helps some. > > Marilyn > CT > > On Wed, 08 May 2002 18:05:15 -0700 Chris Elkins <[email protected]> > writes: > > Hi list: > > > > I am still searching for information on my Penney family. Are there > > any > > volunteers on the list that would be willing to look up vitals for > > me? > > Also, I believe my father and his siblings attended school there. > > Does > > anyone have old year books from probably the late 50's. > > > > William Frederick Penney (my Dad) > > Albert Penney (his older brother) > > Beth Penney (sister- may be Elizabeth) > > Joyce Penney (sister) > > Sharon Penney (sister) > > > > Their parents were Frank E. Penney and Mae (Harrington) Penney. A > > marriage record would be great, too if any one has access. > > > > Thank you in advance for any time someone might have to offer! > > Christine Elkins > > San Luis Obispo, California > > > > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > > You can search the archives for the list at > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CTMIDDLE > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [CTMID] Re: Borden Article in NEHGR? > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 02:09:18 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hi all. Does anyone have ready access to the last couple years of the NEHGS > "Register?" I had read an article about the Borden/Baldwin and Gay families > of New England (some were in East Haddam and Saybrook), and I think I read it > in that publication. The Denver Public Library is currently binding those > two years, so I can't check for it. It was a followup to an earlier article > a decade ago on the same families. If anyone could provide the bibliographic > citation for the article, I'll be ready to check it when the Register is back > on DPL's shelves. Thanks for any help. - Jim Rogers > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [CTMID] Re: Borden Article in NEHGR? > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:40:42 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Hi all. Does anyone have ready access to the last couple years of the NEHGS > > "Register?" I had read an article about the Borden/Baldwin and Gay families > > of New England (some were in East Haddam and Saybrook), and I think I read it > > in that publication. > > Do you have an estimate of which year? I have the last eight issues. > > Jane > list mom > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/