I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in these years on ancestry.com) With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, so they are not in the 1880 US census. Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. Marie

i have been looking...the only thing that i came up with is... Muliken...... it has a little of the sounding.............. it is located.west of Lansing...about even... now there is also..........another one Munith again...you could get a little sounding out of it.. it is located..........just a little northeast of Jackson. see if that helps any. Patiann mstephen <[email protected]> wrote: I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in these years on ancestry.com) With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, so they are not in the 1880 US census. Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. Marie ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

I just read down my email...you sent the wrong one to me. I had the marriage certificate. Sorry PAR <[email protected]> wrote: i have been looking...the only thing that i came up with is... Muliken...... it has a little of the sounding.............. it is located.west of Lansing...about even... now there is also..........another one Munith again...you could get a little sounding out of it.. it is located..........just a little northeast of Jackson. see if that helps any. Patiann mstephen wrote: I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in these years on ancestry.com) With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, so they are not in the 1880 US census. Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. Marie ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

I just read down my email...you sent the wrong one to me. I had the marriage certificate. Sorry PAR <[email protected]> wrote: i have been looking...the only thing that i came up with is... Muliken...... it has a little of the sounding.............. it is located.west of Lansing...about even... now there is also..........another one Munith again...you could get a little sounding out of it.. it is located..........just a little northeast of Jackson. see if that helps any. Patiann mstephen wrote: I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in these years on ancestry.com) With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, so they are not in the 1880 US census. Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. Marie ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

According to "google" Munica is really Nunica, Michigan. hope this helps. Robin Neal in kentucky ----- Original Message ----- From: "mstephen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena > I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, > Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 > in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd > Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for > Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by > 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. > Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. > > Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a > misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well > as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not > been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he > married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I > am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of > Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). > > Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in > these years on ancestry.com) > > With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see > if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already > married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook > Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, > so they are not in the 1880 US census. > > Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. > > Marie > > ***************************** > The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. > MI-Genealogy Mail List Information > http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html > ***************************** > ------------------------------- > 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 Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1189 - Release Date: 12/18/2007 9:40 PM > >

Thanks Robin, we did finally discover that....you know how writing was years ago...that is if you are old enough to knw.... they had such different pennmanships years ago... patiann [email protected] wrote: According to "google" Munica is really Nunica, Michigan. hope this helps. Robin Neal in kentucky ----- Original Message ----- From: "mstephen" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena > I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, > Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 > in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd > Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for > Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by > 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. > Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. > > Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a > misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well > as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not > been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he > married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I > am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of > Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). > > Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in > these years on ancestry.com) > > With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see > if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already > married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook > Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, > so they are not in the 1880 US census. > > Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. > > Marie > > ***************************** > The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. > MI-Genealogy Mail List Information > http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html > ***************************** > ------------------------------- > 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 Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1189 - Release Date: 12/18/2007 9:40 PM > > ***************************** The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. MI-Genealogy Mail List Information http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html ***************************** ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

Thanks, Robin. Sorry for seeming to have ignored your message of 12/26 - it just came in today, 12/28 - along with several others a couple of days late. I wondered if it were just my new email client, but Patiann just got it today, too, so it must have been rootsweb. Nunica it is, although I still can't find my person there. I found the death of an older sister, so the parents were there in 1875; just can't find my Lena Maud READ there yet. She was supposedly born there 30 June 1876. I appreciate your help. Marie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena From: PAR <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 12/28/2007 2:17 PM > Thanks Robin, we did finally discover that....you know how writing was years ago...that is if you are old enough to knw.... > > they had such different pennmanships years ago... > > patiann > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena From: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 12/26/2007 5:22 PM > According to "google" Munica is really Nunica, Michigan. > > hope this helps. > Robin Neal in kentucky > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mstephen" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:13 PM > Subject: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena > > > >> I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, >> Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 >> in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd >> Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for >> Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by >> 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. >> Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. >> >> Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a >> misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well >> as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not >> been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he >> married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I >> am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of >> Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). >> >> Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in >> these years on ancestry.com) >> >> With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see >> if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already >> married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook >> Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, >> so they are not in the 1880 US census. >> >> Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. >> >> Marie

Marie, There is a Nunica, MI in Ottawa County, just east of Grand Haven, MI, which is the county seat of Ottawa. Do you think Nunica is what you are looking for? Elsie in west MI ----- Original Message ----- From: "mstephen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: [MI-GENEALOGY] Munica, Michigan - READ, George W., Margaret, Lena > I have a death certificate for Lena M. Straight who died in Chicago, > Ill., in 1955. On the certificate it is stated she was born 30 June 1876 > in what looks like Munica, Michigan, to George W. Read and Margaret Burd > Read, both supposedly born in Canada (from later census entries for > Lena). Apparently Lena herself (and perhaps Margaret) were in Chicago by > 1885, as Lena's death certificate says age 78, length of stay 70 years. > Lena was also known as Maud, Lena M., Lina. > > Can someone please help me find where Munica is or was? Is this a > misspelling? I am trying to find the birth of this Lena M. Read as well > as a marriage of George W. Read and Margaret Burd. So far I have not > been able to find anything on them. If I have the right Geo. W. Read, he > married again in Missouri about 1883-1884 to Nettie Riddlesbarger, so I > am looking for a death of Margaret Burd Read sometime after the birth of > Lena and before Geo.'s next marriage (1876 - 1883/84). > > Are the Michigan vitals indexes online? (I can't find these people in > these years on ancestry.com) > > With the nonexistence for the most part of the 1890 census I cannot see > if Lena is then living with Geo. and Nettie. I do find Lena already > married to William J. Straight in the 1900 census in Hyde Park, Cook > Co., Ill. The Straight family immigrated to the US from England in 1881, > so they are not in the 1880 US census. > > Thanks for any ideas of where to look next. > > Marie > > >