Thanks - Lillie was born perhaps in Illinois in 1900. Which is interesting because Sadie, her mother, was in NYC in 1900, so who knows if I found the right Sadie Weiss - there were many with the same name in NYC in that census. Sadie had three cousins, Sam, Jules and Jack - all of whom changed their name to White, and produced not only the Jack White Comedies (silent films), but the Three stooges as well - I have not had time to start to find them, but when I do it might give me a clue about when they all came from Hungary, and how all of them migrated to California in the early 1900's. just for grins, these men had a niece whose married name is Charlene Cooper-Cohen, and she lives in the San Fernando Valley. Any relation? It is truly a needle in a haystack, isn't it! Kathy McKee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:13:18 -0800 From: "the cohens" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PBS] Schacher/Weiss To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You don't give a year of birth on Lillie. The only Ohio birth indices I found in a quick scan of Ancestry.com were for Toledo, Ohio for 1888-1895. Did not run a search there as it may not be your time frame. I don't know where you got the "born in Ohio" info, but remember that if it's from a census record, it could be wrong. Many of my family members show up with different birthplaces from census to census, and even places of birth on death certificates can be wrong if the informant gets confused, is misinformed, or just guesses. I try to get as many secondary records as I can and then compare them, and usually consider the earliest record I find to be the most accurate as there is less time for memories to get fuzzy. On 12/7/08, Kathryn McKee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I also found my grandmother Sadie Weiss as a servant in NYC, and learned > that her eldest daughter, Lillie, was born in Ohio. The problem I have with > Lillie is I don't know her last name as she allegedly had a different father > whose name I don't know. ------------------------------ To contact the POLANDBORDERSURNAMES list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the POLANDBORDERSURNAMES mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of POLANDBORDERSURNAMES Digest, Vol 3, Issue 797 ****************************************************