I am searching for the marriage of my Swedish great uncle. I have him living with his father in the 1900 census for Buffalo but didn't find him in the 1905 census. By 1910 the family was living in Cleveland, Ohio. I have reason to believe that Hans Eric Hansson born 1880 in Sweden whose name was anglicized to ''Edward Hugo Hanson'' married in Buffalo prior to 1905. Are there CD's that one can information from or other sources to help me? Sincerely GAIL in Ontario, Can -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.0 - Release Date: 3/2/05

>I am searching for the marriage of my Swedish great uncle. I have him >living with his father in the 1900 census for Buffalo but didn't find him >in the 1905 census. By 1910 the family was living in Cleveland, Ohio. I >have reason to believe that Hans Eric Hansson born 1880 in Sweden whose >name was anglicized to ''Edward Hugo Hanson'' married in Buffalo prior to >1905. Gail, In the library of the Western New York Genealogical Society are films of the marriage registrations in Erie County, and of indexes to them. Unfortunately, they are quite difficult to use, and, in my experience, I find about one in three searches. I checked the index for males from about 1901 to 1906. I saw a few Hansons, but no Edward or Hugo. So we struck out on this attempt. Sorry. Unfortunately, the official county records are essentially identical to the films I looked at. By the way, thanks a lot for pointing me to the 1901 Canadian census. I wasn't aware that the transcription was so far along. I think this is the best job of making census widely available that I have ever seen! I didn't find any new clues to my wandering great uncle or his daughter, but I did happen upon one of his brothers. This mas was a widower with two children. I thought that he brought his children back to Ontario to stay with his father and a sister, while he worked in the west somewhere. But no! In 1901 he was boarding with his young daughter at a house in Atwood, ON, the nearest settled place to the family farm. His son, who was a little older, was boarding at the farm next door to the patriarchal farm. Now I know from other evidence that the daughter wound up living with an Aunt in Fergus, but apparently not as early as I thought. I also filled in a couple of blanks on my grandmother's side. She was from Port Perry, ON. Thanks! George