P.S. Images of signature on WWI draft registration and Ohio marriage license: am no expert, but seems to be the same, at least as far as the way he wrote V and the Ankeney. IMHO and all that. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Blah BlahBlah <[email protected]> wrote: > Woops! One day will learn to read. > > Did a bit more newspaper searching and can't find any Henry. Oh, and McKey > should be McKee. Obituary of Howard Newcomer Ankeney mentions Victor, no > Henry. > > The WWI draft registration record has Henry Victor Ankeney, b. 9 July > 1900, so it seems to me they're the same person and for some reason he > changed his preferred name to James??? Here's a link: > https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZ8F-D9K He had to sign the > registration, so perhaps you could compare handwriting if you have a sample > of James'. > > My apologies for the mix up. > > Sam > > P.S. Here's a link to James V. Ankeney's 1924 marriage to Helen > Armstrong--her maiden name was Hall (her father Wm. T. Hall). The image > there shows James Victor's birth day/month as 9 July. More proof they're > the same? > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Mike Rohrer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sam, Thanks, but Howard Edwin is a different son, born not in 1900, >> but ca. 1904. Henry Victor is the son I was asking about. For example, >> here is the family in the 1910 Census, where there is no son named James >> Victor: >> Howard N Ankeny 38 >> Ella M Ankeny 30 >> Elsie C Ankeny 12 >> William F Ankeny 10 >> Henry V Ankeny 9 >> Catherine L Ankeny 6 >> Howard E Ankeny 6 >> Dorothy I Ankeny 4 >> Nellie V Ankeny 2 >> >> Mike >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Blah BlahBlah >> Sent: 08/07/13 02:34 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Howard Newcomer Ankeney >> Hi, >> >> A brief search of Familysearch and google seems to show that Howard's >> middle name was Edwin, not Victor, and he was born in 1903. Per SSDI at >> Familysearch, was born 12 Aug 1903 and died Mar 1959; married Anna M. (per >> 1940 census); per his obit, her maiden name was McKey. >> >> Per SSDI at Family search, James V. was born 9 July 1900 and died Sep >> 1982; appears to have married Helen Armstrong in Ohio in 1924, but >> Findagrave lists his spouse a*s* Jeanette H. Tripp, so assume he was >> married at least twice. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Sam >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Mike Rohrer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I am interested in the children of Howard Newcomer Ankeney (1872-1953) >> and >> > his wife Ella May Davis (1879-1943). In particular I'm curious about >> > whether son Henry Victor Ankeney, b. 1900, and James Victor Ankeney, b. >> > 1900, were one and the same person. Any help clarifying would be >> > appreciated. Mike >> > >> > >> >> >> ********* >> Visit the threaded archives of this list: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN >> ********* >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> ********* >> Visit the threaded archives of this list: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN >> ********* >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > >