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/JRB.2ACE/269.271.669.727.1 Message Board Post: Susan I'd be interested to hear from you regarding the name Hemus. You can contact me on [email protected] Thanks Liz

For those people whose ancestors may have celebrated some occasion at the Plaza, you may only have until April 30 to visit this renowned hotel to see it as your ancestors may have experienced it when they were there ... because according to the New York TIMES ... The Plaza Hotel, located across from Central Park, where the fictional character Eloise romped through the corridors inside, the fiction writer F. Scott Fitzgerald romped in the fountain outside and, more recently, where Home Alone II took place, sent the union representing its workers a letter this week making official the timetable for the hotel's closing. No one will romp at the Plaza after April 30. The real estate company that owns the Plaza says it will become a construction site on its way to becoming condominiums and stores with a far smaller hotel on the 58th Street side. The hotel has called all guests who had reservations for later than April 30 to let them know they cannot stay there, said Miki Naftali, the president and chief executive of Elad Properties, the Plaza's owner. The letter to the union, the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which has organized a "Save the Plaza" campaign, said that 864 workers would lose their jobs "on or about April 30." The union wants the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate the interior of the Plaza a landmark. The exterior has had such a designation for more than 30 years. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan

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/JRB.2ACE/1608 Message Board Post: Could I Please have a look up for a Rose Natale died 1 Nov 1999............. trying to see if she is the one I am looking for....tks

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has placed its digitized picture collection online: http://www.nypl.org/digital/ According to the NYPL web site, "NYPL Digital is your gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. NYPL Digital helps fulfill The Library’s traditional mission in the Internet Age to collect, preserve and make its holdings available." DISCOVER hundreds of thousands of prints, photographs, maps, and text pages via searchable databases like In Motion: The African American Migration Experience and NYPL Digital Gallery, online exhibitions such as Seeing Is Believing and James Gillray, and text sites such as Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books. Experience selected moving image and sound recordings in Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, and more. DIGITIZED content has been drawn from a broad range of original historical resources, including materials that may contain offensive language or stereotypes. Such materials should be viewed in the context of the time and place in which they were created. All historical media are presented as specific, original artifacts, without further enhancement to their appearance or quality, as a record of the era in which they were produced. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan

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/JRB.2ACE/1607.1.1 Message Board Post: I want to know where he lived, where he worked, how his life was. He is a missing link in our history Brittmarie

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/JRB.2ACE/1604.1 Message Board Post: I am gathering up all of them and will e-mail the images to you.

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/JRB.2ACE/1590.1 Message Board Post: Don't know who your msg. was directed to as none is referenced. I may be able to help if you have some dates and his wife's name.

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/JRB.2ACE/1607.1 Message Board Post: What type of information are you looking for?.. or anyhing in particular you need?..

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wallberg Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JRB.2ACE/1607 Message Board Post: My uncle died in Bronx 1979, 79 years old. I have been searching for information both from the hospital and Social Security Adm but they say it´s to long ago. Where to go???? I know where he is buried, City Cem/Hart Island and had no family of his own in USA. I am his niece and are going to visit NY in May this year. Is there anything more I can do to get information. I have his death cert and his SS application but that´s all.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VARRAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JRB.2ACE/1606 Message Board Post: Hello - could someone look at a microfilm of the Bronx Home News (or any other local paper) for the week of Nov. 27, 1918? My gg uncle George Rufus Varran (age 75) was struck and killed by a car on that date, so there should be some mention in the paper. I am willing to pay for copies, postage and time spent. Thanks! Claudia Breland (in Seattle) [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/JRB.2ACE/1605 Message Board Post: Volunteers Needed We almost have the New York City Bride Index ready to be put on the Internet but we still have some additional cards to be typed. Some volunteers have had the cards for over 10 months and have not completed their assignment. So, what we are looking for are come dedicated typists. I'm looking for a group that can come forward and do a little bit. If I get enough volunteers, I can give everyone just a littl bit to do and we can get this completed in no time. If you can help, please get back to me and I will make copies of the cards and mail you the cards for typing at home into a simple Excel file. A sample file will be provided upon request. The Brides index includes: Brooklyn, 1871-1910 and 1930 to 1937 Bronx, 1899 to 1937 Queens, 1905 to 1937 Keep in mind, these are very important indexes especially when you don't know the names of the men your female ancestors married. You can reach me direct at [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/JRB.2ACE/1604 Message Board Post: I am looking for: William Richard BUTLER (abt. 40 yrs of age in 1900) maybe an Undertaker and his wife Florence (40 yrs in 1900) Isaac Read Butler ARNOW (abt. 24 yrs of age in 1900) and his wife Louisa. William HORNER (abt. 60 yrs. in 1900) born NJ and his wife Ann Eliza (Annie) abt. 58 yrs. in 1900 born NY Thanks in advance Pat L.

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/JRB.2ACE/1577.1.1.1 Message Board Post: No, I'm sorry, she is not in my tree. A lot of Gonos' were Greek, but my Gonos family is Carpatho-Rusyn from what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, present day Poland. As far as I know there are no George Gonos' in my tree.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCabe Ferguson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1603 Message Board Post: Can any listers help me find a cemetery or obit for James McCabe. He died at age 72 in Baychester/Hillside area of Bronx. May have worked for Post Office-not sure. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bardot, Krestine, VonDiezelski, Holler, German Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JRB.2ACE/1577.1.1 Message Board Post: Martha E VonDiezelski, step sister of my Grandfater married George Gonos. 1930 ncensus shows them living in Brooklyn, Kings, NY. Martha was born about 1901. Her step father was Ernest L. VonDiezelski (1866 - 1901) Is she in your family tree?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gonos, Gonas, Tkac, Kotch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JRB.2ACE/1577.1 Message Board Post: Could you please tell me where "Gonos" fits into your family tree? This surname is also in mine. Corinne Musto

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/JRB.2ACE/1543.1 Message Board Post: Henry G. was my GGF, and I always heard from my Dad, that he left the family and went to California. Do you have any info on his parents? And, may I ask, are you related? Will be interested in your reply.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1602 Message Board Post: My Gr.Gr.Gr.Grandfather was Lucius E Cole B:November 25,Abt.1823 He was born in New York Somewhere? I think Lansing Cole was the father to Lucius E Cole,Lucius had a grandson that was name Lucius Elansing Cole... And I think the other Lucius E Cole born in Abt.1823 his middle name is Elansing to. But im not for user.I found this Lansing Cole B:Abt.1800 to 1810 in the 1830 Census in Floyd,Oneida,New York is his Dad? My Lucius E Cole B:Abt.1823 went from New York to Ontario,Canada, Around 1830 to 1849.I found him in Prince Edward County,Ontario,Canada. Lucius E Cole married Emeline Badgley in 1849 in Demorestville,Prince Edward County,Ontario,Canada. My Cole's Ran with the Badgley's,Collins,Reed's,Trips,Park's,and Ect... Dose any one have Lansing Cole in there tree that can either tell me that Im wrong Or tell me if Lucius E Cole belongs to a differnt family? Any help would be greatly welcome, And thankyou for your time. Glenn Cole

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/JRB.2ACE/1527.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Dolores! Mike Madigan(SharecropperTrio) here in Newfoundland! Karen Thomas, the wonderful woman from Ohio who inspired me to write the song about Maggie Madigan who survived the Titanic, is seeking some funds to put a small grave marker on Maggie's "unmarked" grave in Calvary Cemetary, Woodside, Queens, NY. She has appealed to family and friends to help her do this. Also the web site TIS Titanic International Society has offered to pass the hat at their next gathering. I felt it only right that I extend the chance to any Madigans/friends to do the same. As I have mentioned before, Maggie Madigan is from the same town of Askeaton, Co.Limerick, as was our great grandfather John Madigan. I'm presently working on more "family connections" with Madigans in Ireland.(more on that at another time) Ever since I wrote and published the song "Maggie Madigan-Titanic Survivor" as a bonus song on our 3rd cd "Home, Boys!", events and research into this Titanic survivor have been overwhelming. Just type the above words in GOOGLE and you'll see a lot of the information over the last two and a half years. But I admire Karen Thomas for her passion and quest to find out what happened to Maggie. Sad to say she now rests in that unmarked grave. The interesting "edited" story and Maggie Madigan's picture can be quickly read at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item.php/4281.html If you can find time to send Karen a small donation/contribution of any amount, she would really appreciate it. The inscription on the grave stone/plaque will read: Margaret "Maggie" Madigan-Hart-O'Shea, August 11,1890-December 14,1968, "In the Hearts of Strangers". Finally, I know we are all being asked each day of our lives for contributions to many causes, so let it just be understood that for Karen Thomas, she had a dream...a passion..to find out whatever happened to Maggie Madigan after she(Karen) visited the great Titanic exhibit in Cleveland, Ohio, touring in the USA. There she was given a replica entrance ticket to tour the exhibit which bore the name "Maggie Madigan, Third Class". Karen was amazed at the end of the exhibit to learn that Maggie was a survivor but was one of the few survivors who became lost in history these past 92 years. But now that she has been found, Karen would like to pay tribute to this remarkable Madigan by placing a small stone at her gravesite. I admire Karen and anyone else who has great passion for anything. Light tomorrow with today! Karen Thomas' address is at: 925 Glenwood St,N.E. Warren, Ohio,USA 44483 and her email is [email protected] Her phone number is:330-372-6031 If anyone else I have sent this email to is unfamiliar with the whole story, of course dropping into my web site at www.thesharecroppers.net will link you to the original story and facts and even allow you to hear the song before it was recorded on cd. At the time of the song, ironically I did NOT EVEN KNOW our great grandfaher John Madigan (like Maggie) was from Askeaton Ireland also. Fascinating discoveries ahead I'm sure!! I feel we're connected to Maggie through those Madigans. Time will tell and I'll keep ya informed. So I hope a small donation is not too much to ask. A great Askeaton web site(history, castles etc) can be found at www.askeatonbynet.com Drop in..you'll love it! Cheers, blessings and thanks....Mike Madigan in Newfoundland -da Rock!!! 8 Spruce St,Pasadena,NL Canada A0L 1K0 tel:709-686-5427 Please forward to friends...t'anks again! God luv ya!

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/JRB.2ACE/1601 Message Board Post: Hello: Does anyone know if the NYC Department of Health "whites out" Social Security Numbers from death certificates when they make copies for genealogy requests?? I have a copy of my great grandfathers death certificate from 1951. In the column for SS Numbers it is just blank. Usually if the person had no SS Number it would often say "none" I could swear that if you hold it up a certain way it looks like it is a little discolored. However, it is hard to tell from the safety paper they use. I would think that he had a SS Number as he was working during the period of time SS Numbers were issued. Just wanted to see because i want to send for a copy of his Social Security Application....however, if you dont have the number it costs a little more for the request. I dont mind that...but what i would hate is to send the money for the request and find he did not have a number. So...this is why i am inquiring regarding whether NYC-DOH does remove the numbers when processing a request. If someone could let me know i would appreciate it. My great grandfather was George S. Booth, Jr and he died in Kings County Hospital on June 26, 1951. Thanks, JIM BOOTH Highland Mills, Orange County, NY [email protected]