is munica the right name ? if so there is a nunica also but i don't believe it is on the map anymore PAR <[email protected]> wrote: 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. ***************************** 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