Boy Vince, that took some doing to get those Kookers straight. Thanks for doing the the hard work! I had the same problem with that family, always thinking there were 2 Jacob Kookers and trying to figure them out. One was from the Upper Bucks area and had something to do with a hotel and the other was down the line a bit more. Thanks for the additional info on the Urians too. Are our Kookers still the ones who merged with the Michener family then? It's wonderful :) to live in an area where so many have the same last and first names. Almost as tough as the Isle of Man to figure out. Lin On 05/28/12, Vincent E. Summers<vsummers@gmail.com> wrote: Caroline "Carrie" Kooker that I had associated with Samuel Calfe Kooker was inaccurate in part. Samuel had a brother with a Caroline "Carrie" Kooker in it as well, and I had merged these two unintentionally, of course. When the joint "person" took on a characteristic of bigamy, I began to realize something was wrong. My cousin's Carrie Kooker married only twice, not four times, and was of the lineage of Thomas & Lovina KOOKER. She was born 1860 and had Ada M. Urian by a legitimate husband, William A. Urian, not some fly-by-night soldier as family lore had indicated. These KOOKER families crossed geographical borders, primarily between Bucks and Philadelphia counties, though Hunterdon County and Camden County, NJ were involved, as were Richardson and Pawnee County in Nebraska. Vince ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: [1]http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS 2. mailto:PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com

Caroline "Carrie" Kooker that I had associated with Samuel Calfe Kooker was inaccurate in part. Samuel had a brother with a Caroline "Carrie" Kooker in it as well, and I had merged these two unintentionally, of course. When the joint "person" took on a characteristic of bigamy, I began to realize something was wrong. My cousin's Carrie Kooker married only twice, not four times, and was of the lineage of Thomas & Lovina KOOKER. She was born 1860 and had Ada M. Urian by a legitimate husband, William A. Urian, not some fly-by-night soldier as family lore had indicated. These KOOKER families crossed geographical borders, primarily between Bucks and Philadelphia counties, though Hunterdon County and Camden County, NJ were involved, as were Richardson and Pawnee County in Nebraska. Vince

Inconsistencies are resolved in my KOOKER line. I will report on the details later. Suffice it to say I noted some crazy inconsistencies in my KOOKER line. I had been unable to resolve them, so I enlisted the aid of one of the "big dogs" Jane Hamilton. She found a key fragment that turned it all around. Brothers of similar age married and had children of somewhat similar age, two of whom were so similar I had equated them as one. Two Carrie or Caroline Kookers, each with an Ada M. child. More later, since I've cluttered Philly-roots in the past with the conjoined "individual." Vince

Hi Mary, Just did the Betzwood Film Co. and found the Port Kennedy in Montgomery Co. Will do your suggestion. thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Mary Finley Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:04 PM To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] 1918 Port Kennedy Jane, Google - port kennedy pa You will get a good description. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rhamilton" <rhamilton26@tampabay.rr.com> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:22 AM Subject: [Phly-Rts] 1918 Port Kennedy > anyone know where Port Kennedy (Pa.) was in 1918? > Have a WW1 card and is not very good reading. > Thank you, Jane > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2425/5025 - Release Date: 05/27/12

Jane, Google - port kennedy pa You will get a good description. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rhamilton" <rhamilton26@tampabay.rr.com> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:22 AM Subject: [Phly-Rts] 1918 Port Kennedy > anyone know where Port Kennedy (Pa.) was in 1918? > Have a WW1 card and is not very good reading. > Thank you, Jane > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Jane, I think it was close to Valley Forge National Park. I remember reading about Port Kennedy in their visitor center. Regards, Mary > From: rhamilton26@tampabay.rr.com > To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 11:22:47 -0400 > Subject: [Phly-Rts] 1918 Port Kennedy > > anyone know where Port Kennedy (Pa.) was in 1918? > Have a WW1 card and is not very good reading. > Thank you, Jane > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

anyone know where Port Kennedy (Pa.) was in 1918? Have a WW1 card and is not very good reading. Thank you, Jane

I recently found a Burial Card for my uncle and mentioned it in a posting to this site. Then SKS sent me his registration for the draft for WW 1 and with the info of both, my 13 yr search was a success. My uncle was born & raised in Philly, but when he was 20 yrs old he left home and was never heard from again. His burial card listed his dod as 8/16/41 and is buried at St. Mark R,C. cemetery Bristol, Pa., in a unmarked grave. He served 1917 to 1919 in the Army. I sent for his records from St. Louis, but was told that they were destroyed in a fire in 1973. I remember taking my grandsons to Memorial Day parades and the vets from WW 1 were in cars and were in their late nineties. I have cousins who were born in Levittown, so I can get help, but not many people have had to deal with searching to find vets who served with my uncle or with their next of kin who went thru a similar situation and if there are such people, I would love to hear from them. TIA George Corrigan Buffalo, NY

Thank you so much. I will check out LDS. Peggie --- On Sat, 5/19/12, Herbert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> wrote: > From: Herbert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> > Subject: [Phly-Rts] orphan's court index > To: "philly-roots@rootsweb.com" <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> > Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 5:23 PM > <Is the index on line?> >     Not that I am aware, but I have not used > it in more than a decade.  I think I used it through > the LDS Family History Center. > Bert > Herbert Lazerow > Class of 1975 Professor of Law and Director, >   Institute on Int'l & Comparative Law > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego CA 92110-2492 U.S.A. > +1(619)260-4597, fax +1(619)260-2230 > lazer@sandiego.edu > > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >

In a message dated 5/24/2012 4:12:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vsummers@gmail.com writes: >>Joseph H. Seltzer Jr., possibly only as Joseph Seltzer, may have been the one who died in that war from Philadelphia. Can anyone find an obituary in the newspapers?<< Vince ~ There is one, in the Inquirer, dated 3-1-1919...not too much information, but the headline was: Philadelphians Killed in Action There was a list of those killed and wounded and one was Seltzer, Joseph, private, 2647 South 10th Street Is he yours? Dianne

Naturally, it was not called World War I originally, as who would have conceived of the possibility there would be another war as bad as World War I? So it was called THE Great War. Joseph H. Seltzer Jr., possibly only as Joseph Seltzer, may have been the one who died in that war from Philadelphia. Can anyone find an obituary in the newspapers? You would think he would be listed, as people took war deaths very seriously! Thanks for any assist... Vince

Interesting -- thanks! Vince On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Claire K <seekay@comcast.net> wrote: > Dunno if this will help, but the Genealogical Society of NJ ( > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsnj/ ) has a Creveling family > history book for sale. I know they had at least 3 copies of it on > Saturday, at their Spring Program. I don't see it listed in their online > bookstore (http://www.njgenealogy.com/ ), though. If you're interested, > you could contact them for details. > > Hope that helps. > > Claire K > > > On May 9, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Vincent E. Summers wrote: > > > I'm curious... > > > > Did James F. CREVELING, who died after being run over by a train, > > experience an accident, or did he take his life? Is it in the papers? > > > > The incident: 13 Feb 1907 in Philadelphia. > > > > He died at the Hahneman Hospital. > > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Enjoy Quirky Science <http://www.quirkyscience.com/>

Dunno if this will help, but the Genealogical Society of NJ (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsnj/ ) has a Creveling family history book for sale. I know they had at least 3 copies of it on Saturday, at their Spring Program. I don't see it listed in their online bookstore (http://www.njgenealogy.com/ ), though. If you're interested, you could contact them for details. Hope that helps. Claire K On May 9, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Vincent E. Summers wrote: > I'm curious... > > Did James F. CREVELING, who died after being run over by a train, > experience an accident, or did he take his life? Is it in the papers? > > The incident: 13 Feb 1907 in Philadelphia. > > He died at the Hahneman Hospital.

The crazy puzzle is slowly coming together. Mary "Molly" C. Kemp Galanaugh Hefferman McAfee had a daughter, Agnes M. Galanaugh, who married (according to census) Eugene B. ROWE. Mary stayed in her daughter's family home. Eugene, it appears, was actually Eugene Rand ROWE, and was a baseball player, semi-pro. http://www.dvrbs.com/Monuments/oaklyn/OaklynWW2-EugeneJosephRowe.htm Eugene's son was Eugene Joseph ROWE, who was in WWII and died in Hawaii. I have tracked the KEMP family from New Hampshire to Maryland, to Philadelphia, PA, to New Jersey, and finally to Hawaii. It's been fun! Vince

<Is the index on line?> Not that I am aware, but I have not used it in more than a decade. I think I used it through the LDS Family History Center. Bert Herbert Lazerow Class of 1975 Professor of Law and Director, Institute on Int'l & Comparative Law University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego CA 92110-2492 U.S.A. +1(619)260-4597, fax +1(619)260-2230 lazer@sandiego.edu

There is a death cert online for Margaret, but I'm wondering, Is there a newspaper reference that might JUST provide a glimmer of additional information? She seems to have been born 1844 in Pennsylvania. Danke! Vince

It has been a long time since I have used it, but my recollection is that: 1. The index gives you access to papers filed in the court relating to guardianships and the estates of minors; 2. It is not limited to orphans; I have found papers for minors both of whose parents were alive; and 3. The papers are not stored on-site, so you need to send advanced notice to the Orphans Court of when you want to examine the papers so they can get the papers from storage. Bert Herbert Lazerow Class of 1975 Professor of Law and Director, Institute on Int'l & Comparative Law University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego CA 92110-2492 U.S.A. +1(619)260-4597, fax +1(619)260-2230 lazer@sandiego.edu

Is the index on line? Thanks, Peggie Sevem --- On Fri, 5/18/12, Herbert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> wrote: > From: Herbert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> > Subject: [Phly-Rts] Orphans Court > To: "philly-roots@rootsweb.com" <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> > Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 3:28 PM >     It has been a long > time since I have used it, but my recollection is that: >         1. The index gives > you access to papers filed in the court relating to > guardianships and the estates of minors; >         2. It is not limited > to orphans; I have found papers for minors both of whose > parents were alive; and >         3. The papers are not > stored on-site, so you need to send advanced notice to the > Orphans Court of when you want to examine the papers so they > can get the papers from storage. > Bert > Herbert Lazerow > Class of 1975 Professor of Law and Director, >   Institute on Int'l & Comparative Law > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego CA 92110-2492 U.S.A. > +1(619)260-4597, fax +1(619)260-2230 > lazer@sandiego.edu > > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >

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Thank you Ray. Appreciate the info. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Rhoads" <rhodoray@bellsouth.net> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Orphans' court records > It has been some time since I used the index but I did get the information > regarding the estate files from it. I think it also gave me information > regarding the docket. One piece of advice there may be more than one file > and it could extend over a number of years so don't stop looking after > finding the first file. > > Good Luck > Ray > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brenda Antal > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:34 AM > To: List Philly Roots > Subject: [Phly-Rts] Orphans' court records > > A bit of confusion, hopefully someone can help. > > I see the LDS has Orphans' Court index, Orphans' Court dockets and > Orphans' > Court estate papers. The dockets and estate papers seem to have > coordinating volume number and dates, BUT is the index for the dockets or > the estate papers? > > I am assuming I will gain more info from the estate papers than from the > dockets, please correct me if I'm wrong. Trying to figure which films to > order. > > Thanks, > Brenda > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >