Thanks Vincent - I thought Luna Park was in Brooklyn, so I'm really confused why I can not find my family in the 1910 census. - Georgia On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:00 AM, IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-D- [email protected] wrote: > From: "Vincent Walsh" <[email protected]> > Date: June 15, 2005 7:26:06 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] Thomas Quinn family 1910 > > > Geogia, > > Luna Park was an amusement area in Coney Island similar to > Steeplechase. > Coney Island is part of Brooklyn. > > Vince----- Original Message ----- > From: "Georgia Evans" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:28 PM > Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Thomas Quinn family 1910 > > > >> I've been trying to find this family in the Brooklyn 1910 census for >> some time now. There is Thomas, aged about 39, wife, Emma, aged about >> 38, Genevieve, aged 16/17, Frank, 14/15 and Helen, 12/13. I had >> thought >> that Thomas had died by 1910 and the family scattered, but I recently >> found that he died in 1916 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in >> Brooklyn. Other than going through the census line by line, does >> anyone >> have an idea how I can locate this family in 1910? I have not been >> successful in finding them in the directory after 1900 either. >> Another >> recent find was that Thomas was in the videograph?? and played >> cops and >> villians maybe at Luna Park. Is this not in Brooklyn? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Georgia >

At 12:03 PM 6/16/05, you wrote: >Thanks Vincent - I thought Luna Park was in Brooklyn, so I'm really >confused why I can not find my family in the 1910 census. - Georgia I know the feeling -- I couldn't find my father's maternal grandparents *anywhere* in 1880. A couple of their sons had unusual names, and I tried searching for each family member and every variation of Ferguson I could think of, including letting the search use Soundex. I was beginning to wonder if the whole family had moved to Canada just long enough to miss the census :-). Someone finally found them, in Busti, Chautauqua, New York, under FURGRESON, with Irving Laverne FERGUSON listed as "Irvins" and Ulyssys Sinclair (aka "Lizzie") FERGUSON listed at "Ulissus." I got a PDF of the census page, and it sure looks like "Ferguson" to me, so it seems the person who did the index goofed. In other cases, enumerators spell things odd. Either way, "creative" spelling is a must for genealogy researchers :-). Lorena /|\ Searching for: F l a n a g a n (NY state), F l o r i o, C o c c i a, M a r t i n g a n o; F o l e y, F e r g u s o n, M o r g a n <http://silver-gateway.com/fam-tree/>