This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mary T. Dunn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/4077 Message Board Post: Would there be anyone who would live close by and could go to the J.S Waterman and Son Funeral Home in Dorchester ? I will list the person I am seeking the records of. Mary T. Dunn died on December 25, 1918 at Hillside Hospital and the undertaker was the above mentioned. Mary T. Dunn resided at this time at 21 Wells Ave. I would be most grateful to have this information. Kim in Ontario Canada e-mail [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/3000.3 Message Board Post: Mary Ellen, I have images of the street listings for the 1910 Boston City Directory. Do you have any idea of the address for your grandfather? Sue

That is what I'm trying to find out. Did Ann die, if so when/where? Maybe she wasn't able, for whatever reason to care for the girls. Also who on earth is Bessie? That's a new name with this family, at least I haven't run across it yet. Thank you Barbara

I have used this company in the past. Not sure what time periods they cover, but it it looks like they might be able to get you what you need. I believe it cost me about $20.00 for an early 20th century Boston death cert. Good luck. http://www.vitalchek.com/?clicked=1<http://www.vitalchek.com/?clicked=1> ----- Original Message ----- From: Dora Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: [MASUFFOL] need to find researcher to do a lookup in Boston I need to find a researcher to do a lookup in the state vital records office for me. I tried a couple of people listed on one of the national genealogical society web sites, and haven't heard back from them. I called the Boston public library, and the librarian in the social science section - they don't even have a separate genealogy section, which is hard to imagine in a place like Boston, told me they don't have such a list, she told me to look at two national genealogists' web sites, and she also told me that the city of Boston has NO local genealogical society. I mean, come on, even Austin, Texas, has that! Thanks! Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If you look closely, you'll note that the May, 1896 date seems to be for the PETITION for citizenship, or Declaration of Intent. The September, 1896 date would appear to be for the final papers. The certificate dated in October MAY be just the date the certificate was prepared,and issued. You'd have to look at it again to be sure. Another thing you might do is check with the NARA center in Waltham, and have them double check for you. They are very nice and awfully good. They might even do it all through email, if you can give them all the information. Good Luck, Ann

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woods, Cowen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/4076 Message Board Post: I'm looking for an obituary for Alfred C Woods Jr who passed away in Boston, Suffolk, MA, 9 Jan 1982. I am trying to confirm that he was the son of Alfred C Woods and Jessie Cowen of England. If he was their son and I can find his family, I have further family details as well as other 'cousins' to connect. Many thanks, Laura in Minnesota

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4027.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kim, I have many relatives buried in Cedar Grove. I even have someone in Maple Lot. I will take a digital and reg. picture and forward it to you. Send me your info. Regards, Marlene.

Ancestry.com has the Massachusetts death index from 1970 to 2003. Not for before 1970. Can anyone tell me how inclusive and reliable is this index? I didn't find Mildred Cimini in it. Does that mean she didn't die with that name in Massachusetts in that time period? Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Sweet-Hart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] need to find researcher in Boston > Dear Dora: > Ancestry.com has Massachusetts deaths to 1970. Have you tried the SSDI to > ascertain her death? I'm assuming that if you are looking in 5 counties > near Northhampton, you would be looking in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, > Hampden, and Worcester. Have you tried genealogical societies or USGenWeb > sites for those counties in Massachusetts (www.usgenweb.org)? -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/4071.1.1 Message Board Post: Susan, I'm overwhelmed at your kindness - so much information that will be so useful. I am descended from Joe Stockwell's second wife Katy (my grandmother) and grew up with them in the Bay Area. As this was a second marriage, little was said about the first. I always wondered where Gladys also may have died and who she might have married after Joe. I have a picture of one of her sons Bradfore with a groups of what must be here r elatives and maybe her on a ferry in boston. have been trying to track down these people (early 1930's photo). Thanks so much, Carole

Jackie, she was last known of in 1946. The 1930 census tells me she was living then, too, but it does not tell me what happened to her after 1946. She isn't in the social security index, probably because she did not collect social security. Many people who died before the mid 1970's are not in the social security death index, including my grandfather, and both my father's parents. She also would not be in the social security death index under her last known name if she had remarried, which again has to be researched in the bmd records. Thanks for your offers, folks, but I actually have done thorough research, and I specifically need to search the bmd records. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] need to find researcher in Boston > In a message dated 9/20/2006 6:00:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > I lookd at the web site of Mass Docs, they said that if you don't know the > date of the record you need you have to use some other service to find out > before you order the document from them. Did I misunderstand? I sure > didn't see anything else about them doing research. > > Yours, > Dora Smith > Austin, TX > I think if you tell the list what you know about this person we may be > able > to help you. Any luck with census research? At what point are you in > this > research? > > > > Jacqueline Sleeper Russell > website: > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr&surna > me=A > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

Yup - if you happen to be headed over to that vital records office! Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Dora's Boston researcher > Dora, > > If you could give us a name, perhaps someone might be able to help better. > Lois > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

Thanks, Sue, but I've done that. Actually tried everythign short of paying someone to search all those indexes. Relatives' obits, you name it. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] > I do think the SSDI index would be a good place to start although the > residence listed has not mean that is where she died, just where the > benefit > check went to. > > Sue -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

Well, that's what I thought, but we'll see what they say. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve & Anne Lanning" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Dora's Boston researcher > If I'm reading Dora's question properly, NEHGS will not have the > information she seeks. Nor will the Boston Public Library. Someone > will have to go to MA Vital Records to pull a post-1946 record. > Searching the State index is the only feasible course, given that > she's not sure in which of 5 Western MA counties the record may be. > Dora did not mention whether she had tried the SSDI (Soc. Sec. Death > Index) to find perhaps a clue as to death date and residence. That > might bear fruit, and then someone in that county might be able to > look into it. > > Steve > > > > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4075.1 Message Board Post: You could try writing to the individual chuches in Boston to see if they have the record. There is no centralized index for Catholic baptisms in Boston. There is a centralized location for records at the Archdiocese Archives, but they ask you to provide more details about date & location, i.e. name of the church or address where they resided, when requesting a record copy in order to help them locate it. You might want to still give them a try. . . details for requesting records from the Archives are at http://www.rcab.org/Archives/geneology_resources.html#WrittenRequests The Archidiocese also consolidated some churches a couple of yrs. ago, so some were closed. I know one that was closed was in downtown. Most likely, a nearby church inherited its records. For a list of churches currently in Boston go to http://www.rcab.org/Parish/HomePage.html As we're assuming the baptism was around downtown Boston, select Boston under "List Parishes for Selected City." It will give you a list of churches. Click on the church name to get its address. A couple of notes. . . I wouldn't consider the one listed in Dorchester to be "downtown" (but there was a lot of Irish living in Dorchester) & I know St. Leonard is an Italian parish.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gross Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/4074 Message Board Post: Tired of hitting that brick wall in your research? or do you just want to confirm what you already have? This year could be the year you make a break through! As the co-administrator of the Gross Family DNA Project, I want to personally extend an invitation to you. The Gross Family DNA project covers the Grose, Gros, Groce, Groze, Gross, Grossman and other variations of the surname Gross. Simply go to the following link and explore what is has to offer: http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=Q29726&special=true You must be (or find a known relative to be) a direct male descendant of your specific family with the Gross surname(or varation) for the Y-DNA test. You may also test your maternal DNA if your mother was a Gross(or variation). The purpose of the DNA website is so that researchers can determine if they are genectically related to and to prove or disprove family pedigrees. Here is an additional link to answer some common questions: http://www.ftdna.com/faq.html There are already researchers that have had their DNA tested and are waiting to connect. Why wait? Check the site out, request your kit and see if you can break through that brick wall and confirm your research. Hope you'll join! Thanks, Jerry Gross

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4060.2.2 Message Board Post: Whoops, forgot where they lived. In 1921 they were married in Boston. In 1927 they were living in Arlington, Ma. I did ask Arlington Police if they had any missing persons reports and they said that back then all they have is a log book, but no reports. Also, another father I forgot to list, again, not knowing which u were asking for.. Raphael was the son of Joseph and Jennie (Manganaro) Fardella of New York. By the way, Raphael did say at one time that Florence had taken the baby and left. He said that she left him for "Jack". (Jack could stand for John etc, no idea who Jack is) It was also said that she may have gone to New York because she had family there, regardless, nothing was ever found on her or the baby after 1927. They just disappeared.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4060.2.1 Message Board Post: I'm not sure which father you are referring to.. :~) Florence Bilodeau was the daughter of Ida Benoit and Alfred Bilodeau. (I have her birth certificate) Florence married Raphael Fardella in 1921. (I have thier marriage license) Amelia's parents were Florence and Raphael, but with Amelia dissappearing she may not know who her father was seeing she did not see him since 1. (I have Amelia's birth certificate as well) As for Leo, I have no idea who his father was. Leo and Francis were born prior to Florence marrying Raphael. Francis (Uncle Frank) went by Bilodeau, his mother's maiden name. He refused to talk about his mother or what happened the day Raphael brought him and Leo to the orphanage, all he said was that they were brought there, but under the name Fardella because that was Raphael's last name. He had no idea what ever happened to Leo. We have never found him. I wonder if his biological father found out where he was and came and got him, but for some reason or another did not get Frank, I have no idea. Maybe he was adopted, or being older, maybe ran away.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFB.2ACI/4060.2 Message Board Post: Do you know that father's given name? Where they lived in 1927?

On the 1900 census, John E. Stephenson is listed in Boston living with his son, William John Stephenson.He says he is 82 years old and came to Boston from N.B.in 1892.(he was born in Ireland.) My question is would there be a record of this somewhere, or did people just come and go from Canada to the U.S.? If there were a record, where would it likely be?Pat Davis in Alabama --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

Dora, If you could give us a name, perhaps someone might be able to help better. Lois