Larry: This is so true and I agree. I have wanted to send for copies but will not provide my drivers license nor do I wish to pay $10 if the person is not related to me. At 01:34 PM 12/17/2005 -0700, you wrote: >They COULD avoid identity theft by not asking for driver's license numbers. > >Merry Christmas! >Larry B. > >----Original Message Follows---- > >Yes. They will reject your request. This happened to me last month. My >driver's license is from one state and I was in another state and wanted the >records sent to a P.O. box in the 2nd state. They sent everything back to >me. This >is due to their desire to avoid identity theft. > >Merle > > > >==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== >FREE: unlimited webspace! >http://freepages.rootsweb.com/ > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Merry Christmas to all from Ontario, although I will be in N. California on Christmas Day. Pat

Wish everyone MERRY CHRISTMAS from Pattons In Pa.

Are you saying that you do not have home delivery, i.e. that it is not possible for something to be delivered to your home? If that is the case, why not just call the State and ask them what you are supposed to do. I'm a telephone person. You can get answers much more quickly that way. Good luck and please let us know what you find out. Merle

So, what do folks do that have had a request rejected because of a mismatch between license address and mailing address? Paul

I heard that there is or used to be a gal on ebay that sold CDs of the old Philadelphia City Directories. Does anyone have knowledge of this? I searched ebay, with no luck. best, Paul

My eperience is they will reject your request. Happened to me twice in recent months. On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:10:12 -0800 eile <eile@comcast.net> wrote: > I am considering sending in the paperwork for some birth >and death records from > http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=168&Q=202338 > > My question: > They ask for a driver's license with one's CURRENT >address. Will they reject a request if my mailing address >(a p.o. box in a neighboring state) is different from the >address on my driver's license? > > Thanks. > > best, > Paul > > > ==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== > Visit City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~philadelphia/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million >records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

EXACTLY!!! lololol Merle

Yes. They will reject your request. This happened to me last month. My driver's license is from one state and I was in another state and wanted the records sent to a P.O. box in the 2nd state. They sent everything back to me. This is due to their desire to avoid identity theft. Merle

At 07:48 AM 12/13/2005 -0700, Ken Murphy wrote: >Thanks, Holly, That's a very good idea. I'll do that. I'd love to hear what the results of the search/comparison are

They COULD avoid identity theft by not asking for driver's license numbers. Merry Christmas! Larry B. ----Original Message Follows---- Yes. They will reject your request. This happened to me last month. My driver's license is from one state and I was in another state and wanted the records sent to a P.O. box in the 2nd state. They sent everything back to me. This is due to their desire to avoid identity theft. Merle

I am considering sending in the paperwork for some birth and death records from http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=168&Q=202338 My question: They ask for a driver's license with one's CURRENT address. Will they reject a request if my mailing address (a p.o. box in a neighboring state) is different from the address on my driver's license? Thanks. best, Paul

Does anyone here live near Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, PA? If so, could you contact me off-list? Thanks Paul

I contacted a recommended researcher recently about doing some Philly City Directory looups, and they sent me here: http://www.genpa.org/profgen.html Can anyone recommend someone from this list? Thanks. Paul

Hi all, Not sure if anyone is interested but this article was on the NBC10.com website. Grave Marker Unearthed Near Franklin's Grave PHILADELPHIA -- Workers preparing a new path to Benjamin Franklin's grave site unearthed another grave marker in the Christ Church Burial Ground. The six-foot by three-foot marker, about six inches below ground level, bears the date of Robert Usher's death in 1761. The stone lists other members of the Usher family, including a brother, Abraham, who was a member of the church vestry in 1774-75, a contemporary of Franklin's at the church. More than 4,000 people are buried in the two-acre graveyard at Fifth and Arch Streets where Franklin's grave is located, and records of the grave sites are often lacking. "We discovered this marker that we had no idea existed," said John Hopkins, burial ground coordinator for the Christ Church Preservation Trust. Hopkins said the church vestry will decide what to do about the marker directly in the line of the planned path to Franklin's grave.

Thanks, Kathy, now can you look in your crystal ball and tell me how they knew each other? ;-) Susan > > From: KTK24@aol.com > Date: 2005/12/12 Mon PM 11:29:12 EST > To: PAPHILAD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAPHL] Stringer - Directory Look up > > Hi Susan > > Gopsill's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City Directory for 1880. > > Gamewell Stringer, designer, h 2038 Naudain > Harry Stringer, weaver, h 2038 Naudain > > Kathy > > > ==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== > FREE: Upload your GEDCOM to WorldConnect > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

Thanks, Holly, That's a very good idea. I'll do that.

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - September 2, 1905 NEW INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN AT PERKIOMEN SEMINARY After the resignation of Prof. Chas. K. MESCHTER as the head of the Department of English and German at Perkiomen Seminary last spring the trustees were anxious to secure another competent instructor in his stead and we believe they found him in Prof. F. Morse HUBBARD (picture) of New York. Prof. HUBBARD will begin his work when school opens next week. He is a son of Rev. G.H. HUBBARD, D.D., one of the foremost Baptist Ministers of New York State. After his graduation from the High School at Auburn, New York, he entered Harvard College, where he took his Freshman year, at the end of which he was offered a scholarship for Colgate University on the basis of his work done at Harvard and retained the scholarship for the remaining three years. He received his A.B. degree from Colgate University last June, was a Commencement speaker, and was one of the five from his Class elected to the Phi Beta Kapa Fraternity. While at the University, he took a course in pedagogy by virtue of wh! ich he holds a New York State Teacher's Certificate. Throughout his course he was a member of the College Glee Club, and was President of the Y.M.C.A. during his Senior years. He placed special emphasis on English while in college, taking it throughout his course, and is well qualified to take up the work in the Seminary in this department, which Prof. MESCHTER has made one of the strongest in the school. HAD SPINE SEVERED With his spine completely severed midway between his hips and shoulders, Amos REMICK, of Hyde Park, lingers in the Reading Hospital, conscious of his fatal affliction. He was at work dragging a bar of iron to a cutting machine in the Carpenter Steel Works Tuesday afternoon, when his tongs slipped, and he was thrown backward on the teeth of the saw. In attempting to save himself he passed his hand to his back, and it was cut off at the wrist. Fellow employes who witnessed the accident turned to tears at the terrible sight, and the works were closed down for the remainder of the day. At the hospital it was found that the saw had severed the vertebrae, besides the wrist, and passed clean through into the abdomen. The vital cord remained intact, preventing instant death, but he cannot recover. HAD FINGERS CRUSHED AND AMPUTATED Charles STORM, son of John STORM, of Upper Milford, an employe of the Ormrod Pipe Works, Emaus, on Monday while engaged in pushing a truck standing on the track loaded with flange pipes. In trying to push this truck out of the way his left hand got caught in the pipes and three of the fingers were so badly crushed that at least two will have to be amputated. SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC POSTPONED The St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday School, of Pennsburg, have postponed their picnic, which was to held on Saturday, on account of the preceding heavy rains, which made the woods unsuitable for such an occasion. The picnic will now be held on Saturday, September 9th. COAL STORAGE YARD HALF FULL Since the completion of the storage yards at Abrams nearly 250,000 tons of fuel of all sizes has been stored and dumping is going on daily. The yard is about half full and it is expected that by the time the fall weather sets in it will be filled up to its capacity. SCHOOLS OPENED IN THIS BOROUGH The public schools, of this borough, opened on Monday morning with an attendance of one hundred and seventy-five pupils. This was an exceptional large number for the first day. A large number more entered during the week. HARVEST HOME SERVICES Rev. O.F. WAAGE, pastor of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, of near Red Hill will hold his harvest home services to-morrow morning. WASPS GET BUSY Jacob BOYER, a farmer residing at the Dry Lands near Allentown had a thrilling experience on Monday while plowing. He plowed up three yellow wasps' nests and they caused the trouble. His two sons were with him at the time and rode the horses and the wasps lost no time in sailing into everything in sight. In a few seconds the horses went galloping across the field with the plow. Both boys were thrown off, one breaking his jaw and the other sustained bruises all over his body, besides being badly stung. The elder BOYER got caught in the reins and dragged until nearly every particle of his clothing was torn off, and he is a mass of bruises. The horses were so badly stung that they are as full of knobs as a cauliflower. SHOPPERS CRUSH BABY INTO INSENSIBILITY During a bargain sale rush in Norristown on Saturday, a baby was crushed into insensibility. The women became panic-stricken, for they thought it was killed; but it was revived by a physician. GOOD HARVEST HOME COLLECTION The collection at the Harvest Home services of the St. Mark's Lutheran congregation of Pennsburg on Sunday amounted to $100, the full apportionment of the church for Missionary purposes. CASKET COMPANY PAYS 8 PER CENT DIVIDEND The Boyertown Burial Casket Company at its annual stockholders' meeting, declared a dividend of 8 per cent, and a large increase of business over the preceding year was reported. WAGON SHED COLLAPES AT SHIMERVILLE The large wagon shed on the farm of Daniel FOSTER, of Shimerville, collapsed and demolished a good two-seated carriage, driving buggy, phaeton, spring wagon and hay wagon. BULLET GOES THROUGH MERCHANTS HAND Not knowing that a revolver was loaded, Charles C. VAN BUSHKIRK, a Pottstown merchant, was shot through the hand while examining the weapon's action. PEACH CROP WAS INTERFERED WITH Solomon SCHEARER, of Vinemont, one of Berks County's most noted peach growers, says that owing to frost and rain he will only have half a crop of peaches. HUNG HIMSELF IN HAYLOFT John SHOLLENBERGER, of Frick's Locks, near Pottstown, committed suicide on Monday by hanging in his haymow. Melancholy, because of ill health, was the cause. He leaves a wife and ten children.

Hi Susan Gopsill's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City Directory for 1880. Gamewell Stringer, designer, h 2038 Naudain Harry Stringer, weaver, h 2038 Naudain Kathy

The recent talk re naturalization sent me back to my records and I wonder if someone could look up the man who was my gr grandfather's witness for citzenship. The man's name is GAMEWELL STRINGER. I have him in the 1880 Philadelphia census as a "warper" with family in the 7th Ward District 19 Philly but I am curious as to his actual address and perhaps his place of employment. Thanks. Susan