The next meeting is this coming Saturday. MEETING INFO: WHAT: Acquiring Italian Records from Italy with Toni McKeen WHEN: Saturday, October 10, 2009 @ 10 a.m. WHERE: Aldersgate Methodist Church, 600 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry (across from Mercy College on route 9) Toni McKeen has been passionate about genealogy for over 20 years. McKeen has been researching her huge Italian family as well as her husband’s Irish family during this time. Her research has led her to the ancestral homes of her grandparents in Sicily, Calabria, and the Amalfi Coast of Italy and she have made several trips to the "homeland" in search of documents. Ms. McKeen has taught several levels of genealogy in Founders Hall in Ridgefield, CT for more than 5 years. This lecture will focus on how to get documents from Italy. The meeting opens at 10:00 a.m. at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 600 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Guests are welcome. For information about Westchester County Genealogical Society (Westchester Connection or Surname List), visit WCGS home page -- _http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/) Hope to see you on Saturday!! RESERVED THESE DATES FOR WCGS Future Meetings Nov 14, 2009 Growing Up in Yonkers Eddie Dee Dec 12, 2009 Holiday Party Special Interest Groups / Study Group Meeting Jan 9, 2010 20th Century Probate Research: Confirming Relationships & Finding Family Debra Braverman Feb 13, 2010 The History of the Hudson River and Henry Hudson Dr. Raymond E. Phillips Mar 13, 2010 The Cemeteries of Westchester County Patrick Raftery, Assistant Librarian @ Westchester County Historical Society Apr 10, 2010 What’s Up Doc? Jo Heffernan May 8, 2010 Who were the parents of …? Joe Lieby June 12, 2010 Writing the Family Narrative Tony Lauriano

According to the publication, "The New York Foundling Hospital; An Index to Its Federal, State and Local Census Records (1870-1925)" by Carolee R. Inskeep, The Foundling Asylum was located at 17 East 12th Street, NY, NY. Census was conducted on July 2, 1870, Ward No. 15, Election District No. 10. Unfortunately, for this particular census, the book only lists the names of the Sisters of Charity and Servants. It does mention that there were 34 White Female "Foundlings" born in New York, and 11 White Male "Foundlings" born in New York. It further says, "The enumerator did not make individual entries for children." By 1880 The Foundling Asylum was located at 175 East 68th Street, NY, NY. Supervisors District No. 1, Election District No. 594. Here the "inmates" are enumerated but unfortunately I do not see a Laura Ellsworth Britton. Please contact me if I can be of further help. Good luck to you. Adelaide ----- Original Message ----- From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 9:01 pm Subject: [NYBRONX] Laura Ellsworth Britton 1862 New York To: NYBRONX-L@rootsweb.com > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: lrcarter985 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3550/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I am researching my great grandmother and I finally found her on > a Montana Federal census,it states that she does not know her > age or who her parents are and that she came from the New York > Foundling Asylum,and she thinks she was born in New York.I have > researched and have found that the Asylum was ran by the Sisters > of Charity.What I'd like to know is if someone can tell me where > in New York the 1st hospitol started and where on the census it > is?I believe my GGrandmother is or may be on that 1870 census > for the Sisters of charity.I have searched Laura's name every > which way and have found nothing before 1900.Laura's daughter my > Grandmother says she was sent to Illinois,possibly on an orphan > train.I do not know if Laura Ellsworth Britton is her real given > name,I just know this Laura is my GGrandmother. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. > If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message > Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYBRONX- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lrcarter985 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3550/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am researching my great grandmother and I finally found her on a Montana Federal census,it states that she does not know her age or who her parents are and that she came from the New York Foundling Asylum,and she thinks she was born in New York.I have researched and have found that the Asylum was ran by the Sisters of Charity.What I'd like to know is if someone can tell me where in New York the 1st hospitol started and where on the census it is?I believe my GGrandmother is or may be on that 1870 census for the Sisters of charity.I have searched Laura's name every which way and have found nothing before 1900.Laura's daughter my Grandmother says she was sent to Illinois,possibly on an orphan train.I do not know if Laura Ellsworth Britton is her real given name,I just know this Laura is my GGrandmother. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: al11795 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3549/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Italian Genealogical Group will meet at the Bethpage Public Library, 50 Powell Ave, Bethpage, NY, on Saturday, October 10th at 10:30 AM. Featured speaker will be IGG member, Marie Pastore, who has been researching her Italian, German, Swiss, and Swedish roots for the past 14 years. Marie's lecture is entitled "So You Want to Know About Your Family!" It will focus on getting started in genealogical research but will also contain nougats of vital information useful for all researchers. Guests are welcome to this FREE lecture. The IGG meets the second Saturday of each month at the library to discuss a wide range of genealogical topics. New members and guests will find instruction and support for their research endeavors at the meetings. Visit our website. http://www.italiangen.org/ for further information or for access to our FREE naturalization and vital records databases. Angela LaGiglia Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: iowawalker Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.3.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It would be wonderful if you could find out more. Would it be possible to find an obituary for the younger Hugo. I just am not positive we are talking about the same Hugo Engkvist. The Swedish relatives knew he did not get along with his parents and that is why he left. I have a photo of him in his merchant marine uniform when he left Sweden. Then of course he was in WWI. I just can't figure out the wife and child thing. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

It is Featherbed Lane. I believe it got its name because women that lived there used to air out their featherbed comforters on the windowsills years ago. Marilyn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ziggysprints1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, I am not a relative. If you like I will try to find out more about them. Zig Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dulcea07 Surnames: Engkvist Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Ziggysprints1, You made a post on an Ancestry.com message board about Hugo Engkvist and his mother, Olivia Engkvist, who lived in the New York area in the 1940s. These people were my grandfather and great grandmother. Are you related to them? Do you know any more about them? Thanks, Olivia Engkvist Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dulcea07 Surnames: Engkvist Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm not related to that Hugo, no... but I'm the granddaughter of the other Hugo, the one that was born in America. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: iowawalker Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Swedish relatives that asked me to research Hugo said after he left Sweden he came back to visit in Aug. 1929 and brought a woman with him that he said was his wife. They thought her name was Flory -- so when I saw Florence listed on the draft card I thought it was his wife. I keep in touch with his sister's son Reinhard in Sweden. I show Hugo coming to America via Halifax, Nova Scotia from Copenhagen, Denmark. Arrived in us Sep. 7, 1929 on ship Frederik VIII. Are you related? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dulcea07 Surnames: Engkvist, Excel Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: By the way, I do not know who the Florence listed on Hugo's draft card was... possibly an aunt or a cousin, because I know that Hugo (the one born in America in 1917, that is) did not get along well with his father (Karl Engkvist), and his mother (Olivia (Excel) Engkvist) had already died from pneumonia. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dulcea07 Surnames: Engkvist Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: No... The Hugo that you are searching for is a completely different Hugo than the one I wrote about. The Hugo that I wrote about, however, is the same Hugo as the one that ziggysprints1 wrote about. I was writing to clarify ziggysprints1's answer. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: iowawalker Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for the reply. I am researching Hugo Ferdinand Engkvist born 4 Nov. 1892 in Helsingborg, Sweden. At age 50 he applied for naturalization on Mar 22, 1943 and was living at 1545 Jesup Ave. Bronx, NY. He married Florence who supposedly ran a nursing home. He was a caretaker. He married Sep 12, 1934. He had tatooed forearms. Are you stating that my Hugo above also married a woman named Olivia and had a son named Hugo? If so this marriage was prior to him marrying Florence. Am I understanding this correctly? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dulcea07 Surnames: Engkvist Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3456.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Hugo Engkvist that you referred to on the draft card was born March 17, 1917. He died in September 2006 in Roseville, CA. He married Mildred Horschelman. The Olivia Engkvist that you mentioned was his mother, and she was from Finland. Her husband was Karl Engkvist, and he was from Sweden. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Aespringer Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/566.595.598.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There is now a new LERNER family DNA Project. The project website is at: www.anitaspringer.com Thought you might be interested. Anita Springer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

April 17 was the last message about additions to http://www.newyorkgravestones.org site a great deal of photos had been submitted by many.... and when you want to share, please review the instructions linked at bottom of left column before submissions for successful and quality photos. Albany Allegany Bronx Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Fulton Genesee Greene Herkimer Lewis Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Oswego Queens Rensselaer Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Steuben Suffolk Warren Washington Wayne Wyoming W. David Samuelsen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: marysayers1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/3548.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello I have just found your reply to my query. Many thanks indeed for your help. You have given me some potentially very useful leads which I shall now follow up. Your help is much appreciated. With best wishes, Mary Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: teishak2003 Surnames: Gilmartin, Kinirons, Towler, Whelan Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.bronx/136.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Tho post I am responding to is written by my 3rd (if that is how you describe it) Laurie. I have info. to add since the query concerned by grandmother, Mary Gilmartin. Mary and my grandfather John Joseph Towler were considered married through common law. They had three children, Robert, Joseph and my mother, Ann May. Joseph married Patricia Hacket, they have four children. Robert married Rose, they have five boys, my mother and father are John Joseph Kinirons and Anna May Towler, they had four children. Laurie was correct, my grandmother was killed by being hit by a truck, this was I believe in 1962. John J. Towler died in 1970, Anna May Towler Kinirons died in 1996, a year or two later, her brother Robert died. My father John J. Kinirons died in 2008. of the fuor children my parents JOhn and Anna had, we lost my brother, also John J. in 1995. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Westchester County Genealogical Society (NY) – Family History Fair On Sept 19, 2009, Westchester County Genealogical Society will be a participant at a Family History Fair in Yorktown (Westchester), NY. It will run from 10am to 3pm at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1/4 mile east of the Taconic Parkway on Route 134. For more information on this fair, please check out the following site: _http://www.familyhistory.dreamhosters.com/_ (http://www.familyhistory.dreamhosters.com/)

All of a sudden I read of Manida, Longwood an Fox. I lived in 874, 868 and 840 Manida near Lafayette. We used to call you people down the hill, swamp people. We would roller skate down the hill past the, Monastery, Bank Note Co. and down Tiffany. That was in the late 30s and early 40s, when the area was in its' glory. Don in Oregon