Thanks for this confirmation. Can you tell me what year this fire would have been? Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: <digupstuff@yahoo.com> To: <MIALPENA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:32 PM Subject: [MIALPENA-L] Re: Records Destroyed By Fire > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Walsh, Anderson, Taylor, Place, Beeney... > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IFB.2ACE/1092.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Yes! I've been aware of this fact for years (or so that's what I was told > all of my life!)! And the story goes that my grandmother was born there > and she was put in an orphanage soon after she was born, but when her new > parents adopted her, they had no birth records for her because of this > fire. So all of her life, she never knew the exact date of her birth. She > thought that it was in November, so she chose the 5th and the 15th. When > my daughter was born on the 15 of November, she then chose that as her > main birthdate. :D > > > ==== MIALPENA Mailing List ==== > Have you checked the Alpena County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mialpena >