Listers Do not lose heart if you do not find what you want. Sometimes it takes a long time and answers come from unexpected places. Story time. I could not find where my great great grandmother immigrated from in Bavaria though I searched for 20 years. Then one day another lister ask if anyone knew anything about his great great uncle, brother of his great grandfahter. who he could find information on. I could reply that the Godfather of my great grandmother bore that name, and that another man whose name was that same as the great grandfather signed my gg grandfather's will. Needless to say we were related. From him I found out where she came from and places to write in Europe for more information HELEN in PGh -------------------------------------------------- From: <Bjpaquet@aol.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:30 PM To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ALL] funeral home records > So great that we can look through the index ourselves now at the PA > Archives website. Give you the opportunity to look for misspellings or > alternate > spelling that they didn't do when you wrote to New Castle. > > Beverly > > > In a message dated 2/26/2014 3:13:58 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > andrina_womack@hotmail.com writes: > > > My great grandfather was buried in the cemetery that I kept calling and > asking them over the years. They said he wasn't there. I tried getting > a > death certificate from PA death records and because he wasn't in the index > they said he didn't die in Pittsburgh. I finally had a lady get in touch > who was a relation to his 2nd wife and she knew her maiden name. I had > advertised that Kearns was her married name. She had a copy of his death > certificate and he died around the time my father thought he had. He was > also > buried in Woodlawn cemetery that had said he wasn't buried there. Don't > take > the index for death certificates as accurate. They will not check to see > if someone isn't in the index or the name was spelled wrong. Funeral > homes > are usually taken over by someone else and records will stay with them or > if someone buys them out they take the records. > > CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.o > rg/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: > http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi group: Along with what Helen said both Rootsweb and Genforum have message boards for most surnames. You should post your message on both boards. Because of postings on message boards I had other researchers contact me and supplied the information I needed to prove those lines. One even supplied pages from a family bible for that line. When you do post to a board make sure to supply a good title with your request, such as name, approximate date of birth and place of birth so you catch the attention of other researchers. Posting looking for Thompson's to a Thompson board is redundant and will probably be ignored. Larry On 2/26/2014 9:57 PM, Helen Owens wrote: > Listers > Do not lose heart if you do not find what you want. Sometimes it takes a > long time and answers come from unexpected places. > Story time. I could not find where my great great grandmother immigrated > from in Bavaria though I searched for 20 years. Then one day > another lister ask if anyone knew anything about his great great uncle, > brother of his great grandfahter. who he could find information on. I > could reply that the Godfather of my great grandmother bore that name, and > that another man whose name was that same as the great grandfather signed my > gg grandfather's will. Needless to say we were related. From him I found > out where she came from and places to write in Europe for more information > HELEN in PGh > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: <Bjpaquet@aol.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:30 PM > To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [ALL] funeral home records > >> So great that we can look through the index ourselves now at the PA >> Archives website. Give you the opportunity to look for misspellings or >> alternate >> spelling that they didn't do when you wrote to New Castle. >> >> Beverly >> >> >> In a message dated 2/26/2014 3:13:58 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, >> andrina_womack@hotmail.com writes: >> >> >> My great grandfather was buried in the cemetery that I kept calling and >> asking them over the years. They said he wasn't there. I tried getting >> a >> death certificate from PA death records and because he wasn't in the index >> they said he didn't die in Pittsburgh. I finally had a lady get in touch >> who was a relation to his 2nd wife and she knew her maiden name. I had >> advertised that Kearns was her married name. She had a copy of his death >> certificate and he died around the time my father thought he had. He was >> also >> buried in Woodlawn cemetery that had said he wasn't buried there. Don't >> take >> the index for death certificates as accurate. They will not check to see >> if someone isn't in the index or the name was spelled wrong. Funeral >> homes >> are usually taken over by someone else and records will stay with them or >> if someone buys them out they take the records. >> >> CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.o >> rg/~allegheny/index.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject >> and the body of the message >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: >> http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- My genealogy page http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ Allegheny County Maps page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/