Thanks Bob I never tried that I will se what I can find. Sorry its taken me so long to get back with you been real busy Thanks Norma Kirchhofer norma_kirchhofer@hotmail.com Warren Historian USA > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:27:16 -0600 > From: gensearch.mgh@gmail.com > To: warren@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WARREN] Richard Warren/Mayflower-1620n > > The idea of searching by unusual first name is a great one. I had an > ancestor of another surname, who married a woman with first name of Modena. > It was a brick wall. Early research had her married to a different brother! > I searched early census data -- 1800, 1810, 1820 -- found family of an > Elizuer, whom I thought might be my GG Grandfather; but no way to tell if it > was my guy - and family members were not named in early censuses. Finally, > in 1830, while searching for all Modena women in the US, she turned up in > the same location where Elizuer was found. So, he had died in the last 10 > years, and she was head of the family -- by comparing distribution of > children and ages, I could confirm they were the same family I was looking > for. They had relocated from another part of the state, and were living near > a son... who also had a rather unusual first name. Maggie > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:31 AM, <rewarren@aol.com> wrote: > > > Your best bet may be to look up the family in the 1930 census and work > > backwards. > > Search for them by their location and family make-up. Children with unusual > > names are > > sometimes easier to search for than parents with common first names. If you > > don't have > > access to the census, I could see if I could find them (I'd need all the > > names and approximate > > birth dates as well as where they lived). > > > > Bob Warren > > rewarren@aol.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage1_042009