The death record should have a date of birth. Have you checked with Monroe County for that information? Carol Shaw ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 6:36 PM Subject: [ILMONROE-L] Re: Updates > Well, well. I found my Daniel O'Leary serving on the Jury. He must have been > naturalized, then. > > Does anyone have ideas on what records in Monroe County might have listed the > place of birth of an immigrant ancestor? We know they're not on the > tombstone, and are about out of ideas. > > Candace McCarthy King > > > ==== ILMONROE Mailing List ==== > Yep -- I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or > Melchizedick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Gianfortoni, > not William Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott. > I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children baptized in > recognized houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left > detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their > photographs taken once a year -- subsequently putting said pictures in > elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic inscriptions, and > carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones. I want > relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established, > still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries. > I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the military as > officers and who served in strategically important (and well documented) > skirmishes. I want relatives who served as councilmen, schoolteachers, > county clerks and town historians. I want relatives who 'religiously' wrote > in the family Bible, journaling every little event and detailing the > familial relationship of every visitor. > In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to have arrived only in > those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by National Archives, > and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to have done so only > in those jurisdictions which have since established indices. > I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who joined every > patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and listed all their > addresses, who had paintings made of their horses, and who dated every > piece of paper they touched. I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, > and to keep for generations, the tribal homestead, and who left all the > aforementioned pictures and diaries and journals intact in the library. > But most of all, I want relatives I can find!!! > Barbara A. Brown > * Ms. Brown's "I Want" article was originally posted in 1994 to the > National Genealogical Conference, FIDO bulletin board forum. > >