There are no "official" fairgrounds in Scranton. There are several sites in the city where carnivals locate, etc. The Oxford Plot in West Scranton hosted many carnivals, etc. Also, many Little League Fields are sites for this sort of thing. At one time (about 35-40 years ago, there was a large vacant lot on South Washington Avenue where the circus was held a few times, but I think that was just an area where houses had been lost in the big flood in 1955. Another possibility is Memorial Stadium on Providence Road in North Scranton. There may have been some sort of carnivals or festivals held there. CJ <<<I am trying to locate the fairgrounds in Scranton or if it had a special name in the early 1920's. Thank you, Jean Marie>>>

I am trying to locate the fairgrounds in Scranton or if it had a special name in the early 1920's. Thank you, Jean Marie

Robert I was interested in your suggestion for this problem. I found that in doing what you describe the image became too small to read. However, your suggestion to look at the next page is correct usually the data in on two pages particularly in the more recent years. Glen --- Robert O'Neill <reoneill1@hotmail.com> wrote: > I had the same problem. Save the page to your hard > drive-- it will probably > be saved as a bitmapped image(.bmp)at 72 pixils per > inch. > > Open the image in a photo editing program, such as > photoshop or canvas. Use > this software to increase the number of pixils per > inch; this will > effectively change the dimensions of the printout > without loss of image > data. In photoshop this can be done by opening the > "image size..." dialog > box under the "image" menu. Make sure the "resample > image" box is not > checked. change the dimensions of the width to 8 > inches-- the height and > resolution (pixils/inch) will change automatically. > > You should be able to print the entire image out on > a single piece of paper. > Note that the text may be quite small, depending on > how large the original > document was. > > One more thing: check the page before and after the > one that Ellisisland > records.com pointed you to. Sometimes there is > additional information on the > same people on the next page. I found this to be the > case with several > manifests. > > Good luck, > > Bob O'Neill > Yonkers, NY > > > >From: MCasey863@aol.com > >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [PA-LAC] Ellis Island Manifest question > >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:59:33 EDT > > > >Dear Friends, > > > >I've been trying to print out a copy of the actual > manifest for my > >husband's > >grandfather who came in to Ellis Island in 1893. > I've enlarged the actual > >manifest page which has created the problem. > > > >I can't get the whole page printed on my printer. > I can only go as large > >as > >8.5 x 14 and that's only 1/2 way across the page. > I'm printing in > >Landscape. > > > >There's important information I want to learn on > the right hand side of the > >page. > > > >Does anyone have a suggestion as to how it can be > reduced to 8.5 x 14 or > >how > >to get it all printed as is? I'm not a computer > whiz so the explanation > >can't be too complicated, please. > > > >Thank you. Mary L. Casey > > > > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > >Search the Lackawanna pages: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html > >To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Visit RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

Hi Everyone, I found the answer to the question I put on the list myself. A lot of people seemed interested. Yes, you can still request an SS 5 even if the person does not show up on the SS Death Index. I found the following through Ancestry.com. Carol Not everyone who has, or has had, a Social Security card will appear on the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). Many enrolled persons are not listed either because their death was not reported to the SSA or they are still living. If you haven't found your deceased ancestor on the SSDI, but he or she was likely enrolled with the Social Security system, it may still be possible to get a photocopy of his or her original SS-5. To request this information, you will need to send the name and Social Security number of the person you're researching. You might be able to locate the person's Social Security number in the following places: personal papers death certificate funeral home records records held by financial institutions voter registration rolls at county courthouse former employers of the individual If those sources don't produce the number, you may request a "records search" with the Social Security Administration. To request this service you must send $16.50 and provide the following information: full name, state of birth, and date of birth to: Freedom of Information Officer 4-H-8 Annex Building 6401 Security Boulevard Baltimore, Maryland 21235 Providing names of parents are also helpful, especially with common surnames. Be sure also to provide proof of death, as the records of living individuals are not publicly available.

In a message dated 6/27/2001 3:19:06 PM Central Daylight Time, spresner@hotmail.com writes: > I also have a grandfather who has a SS#, but never collected. please let me > know the outcome. shawn > Whether or not they collected should not affect whether they have an application on file. If you have the social security number I imagine the record can be found. Gayle Thorpe Baar Irving, Texas Researching: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, Davies, Davis, Easton, Evans, Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Gibbons, Hall, Harris, Hughes, Hutton, Ignew, Jones, Ladburner, Lee, Mackie, Miller, Morrell, Payne, Pettebone, Read, Starkey, Stephens, Swetland, Thorpe, Tiffany, Whitaker, Williams, Woodruff

Mary The best way I have found is to go to the enlarged manifest and click the right button on your mouse when your cursor is on it. Go to copy and then paste it in a separate file. You can then open it with microsoft imager and gain all the information you want. Hope this works Glen Jenkins Swansea Wales --- MCasey863@aol.com wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I've been trying to print out a copy of the actual > manifest for my husband's > grandfather who came in to Ellis Island in 1893. > I've enlarged the actual > manifest page which has created the problem. > > I can't get the whole page printed on my printer. I > can only go as large as > 8.5 x 14 and that's only 1/2 way across the page. > I'm printing in Landscape. > > There's important information I want to learn on the > right hand side of the > page. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to how it can be > reduced to 8.5 x 14 or how > to get it all printed as is? I'm not a computer > whiz so the explanation > can't be too complicated, please. > > Thank you. Mary L. Casey > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Search the Lackawanna pages: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html > To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

Thank you Cary but I don't have a MAC. I don't have the % option on my computer. Mary

Thank you Bob for all your directions. Mary

I found Reinhardt Schoenfeld on the list of undertakers provided by Richard Reese on the Lackawanna site. I cannot find a listing in the online yellow pages. Does anyone know if this funeral home still exists, and if so what the phone number is? The last address listed was for 318 Franklin Ave. Thanks, Karen Hillman

If he has a SS# they'll have an application. The index only includes those who filed for death benefits. Doesn't mean they don't have an application. Dot -----Original Message----- From: PUSTULKA@aol.com [mailto:PUSTULKA@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:33 AM To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PA-LAC] Social Security SS5 question Hi , Does anyone know if it is possible to get a Social Security application on someone who never collected? I received my grandfather in-laws death certificate. There is a Social Security number on it but he died in 1943 so would never have collected and is therefore not on the death list. Would his application still be on file? Carol ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== Visit the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society http://rootsweb.com/~panepgs/ To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList

If you are on a MAC, go to page setup and find the box for % reduction on printing. Cary

Does anyone have information on these families listed in the 1880 PA census? In addition to the census, I've included other details found elsewhere. William G. HOWELLS, b. ca 1847, Wales, came to US ca pre ca 1876. Wife: Dianna JOHNS, b. ca 1858, Wales. Mother: Lida HOWELLS, listed as Mother and Servant on census, age 65. Daughters: Lilly M, age 4; Edith A. age 3, Olwen O., age 4(m. John B. Evans) Near the Wm. G. Howell family on census . Wm. A DAVIS, age 35, wife Elizabeth 22, Margaret, 2, Agnus (?) B.5. ==I have more details which I would be delighted to share. Verna Banes vbanes@cox-internet.com

I had the same problem. Save the page to your hard drive-- it will probably be saved as a bitmapped image(.bmp)at 72 pixils per inch. Open the image in a photo editing program, such as photoshop or canvas. Use this software to increase the number of pixils per inch; this will effectively change the dimensions of the printout without loss of image data. In photoshop this can be done by opening the "image size..." dialog box under the "image" menu. Make sure the "resample image" box is not checked. change the dimensions of the width to 8 inches-- the height and resolution (pixils/inch) will change automatically. You should be able to print the entire image out on a single piece of paper. Note that the text may be quite small, depending on how large the original document was. One more thing: check the page before and after the one that Ellisisland records.com pointed you to. Sometimes there is additional information on the same people on the next page. I found this to be the case with several manifests. Good luck, Bob O'Neill Yonkers, NY >From: MCasey863@aol.com >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PA-LAC] Ellis Island Manifest question >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:59:33 EDT > >Dear Friends, > >I've been trying to print out a copy of the actual manifest for my >husband's >grandfather who came in to Ellis Island in 1893. I've enlarged the actual >manifest page which has created the problem. > >I can't get the whole page printed on my printer. I can only go as large >as >8.5 x 14 and that's only 1/2 way across the page. I'm printing in >Landscape. > >There's important information I want to learn on the right hand side of the >page. > >Does anyone have a suggestion as to how it can be reduced to 8.5 x 14 or >how >to get it all printed as is? I'm not a computer whiz so the explanation >can't be too complicated, please. > >Thank you. Mary L. Casey > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Search the Lackawanna pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Looking for anyone connected to John McHale and Bina Robinson. They were married February 27, 1900. John's father would have been Thomas McHale and his mother Bridget Bell(e). They lived in either Jessup or Olyphant. Peggy

Hello List, I am looking for the name of the fairgrounds in Scranton. My Hulse family lived across from it in the 1920's. Thank you, Jean Marie

Dear Marybeth, Thanks for the information. My father went there. He is now 92. I assume there would be no records though, But I will pursue this. Jack

On one of the S.S. forms I sent for I found some information I never expected. I discovered the man in question had been adopted by his stepfather and it listed the name of his birth father. In this case I also found the mother's maiden name which I had not known before. When parents or even grandparents have been married more than once, the information gained here may not be so easily available anywhere else. Barb -----Original Message----- From: PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: PALACKAW-D@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: PALACKAW-D Digest V01 #208

I also have a grandfather who has a SS#, but never collected. please let me know the outcome. shawn >From: PUSTULKA@aol.com >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PA-LAC] Social Security SS5 question >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:32:59 EDT > >Hi , >Does anyone know if it is possible to get a Social Security application on >someone who never collected? I received my grandfather in-laws death >certificate. There is a Social Security number on it but he died in 1943 >so >would never have collected and is therefore not on the death list. Would >his >application still be on file? > >Carol > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society >http://rootsweb.com/~panepgs/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Dear Friends, I've been trying to print out a copy of the actual manifest for my husband's grandfather who came in to Ellis Island in 1893. I've enlarged the actual manifest page which has created the problem. I can't get the whole page printed on my printer. I can only go as large as 8.5 x 14 and that's only 1/2 way across the page. I'm printing in Landscape. There's important information I want to learn on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how it can be reduced to 8.5 x 14 or how to get it all printed as is? I'm not a computer whiz so the explanation can't be too complicated, please. Thank you. Mary L. Casey

Ruthann Try contacting the Lackawanna Historical Society, maybe they can be help to you. I have contacted them before & they were most helpful. I found out my g-grandfather died 10/7/1910 in a mine collapse in the Taylor Mines & was one of the first postmasters in Minooka & was a pretty prominent person in his day. (ie his name was William J. Burke) The address for the Lackawanna Historical Society is C/O The Catlin House 232 Monroe Avenue Scranton, PA 18510 (570) 344-3841 and my letter was sent by Mary Ann Moran/Director Hope this helps you. Patti in NJ (PFinnis@aol.com) Searching WALSH, BURKE, LAVELLE, KAVANAUGH, GALLAGHER, HOGAN AND SCANLON and JUDGE SCRANTON/MINOOKA, PA (maternal) also FOX/O'SHAUGHNESSY (Newark, NJ) (paternal) and FINNIS (New York, NY) and CALLERY (Brooklyn, NY) husbands side