What/Who are you searching for right now?? - Page 2

mshawnee1 · 08-04-2012, 10:52 AM

More and more I seem to be looking for coins for the scavenger hunt! However, my brick wall is Richard Exelby from Copmanthorpe, England. I know when he was married (1757 and then again in 1760 after his first wife died) and to whom (Sarah Gibson in 1758 and Jane Dunnell in 1760), and I know when he died (1806), because information is recorded in the Parish Registry. I can't find any record of his birth. I have met several cousins through the years, and he is their brick wall as well. I'd guess that we've been looking for him for about 20 years now, and I'm confident that one day he'll pop up. There is a Richard that pops up on Ancestry family trees quite often, but none of us can find any verification that he's OUR Richard.

**shazzt** · 08-04-2012, 03:38 PM

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You need to get yourself access to Ancestry.com (maybe at the library). They have a lot of London Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. If you check for the marriage you will find the father's names of the George & Rebecca above. Maybe that will match the grandfather's name that Henrietta has been living with.

Amazingly, I found them on Family Search. A Rebecca Bradford with the right parents, in the right place on the right date! Good enough for me.

GabbyGee1976 · 08-04-2012, 04:12 PM

I'm stuck right now on my Dad's side of the family. I can't seem to find ANYTHING about anyone - even those people I know the names of.

I'm also having difficulty finding anything past my grandmother's parents. I just can't seem to find anything.

**GailS** · 08-04-2012, 08:47 PM

I am hopelessly stuck on a ggggrandfather, John Simpson/Johannes Simson, who was born in 1798 in Tatamagouche, NS Canada according to every record anyone can seem to find.

In addition, I cannot find a death record or burial info on his widow, Jane Woodworth born 1800 or 1801. Found HIS gravesite in NS, but she is not buried with him, so I suspect that even though she was older when he passed away - I think almost 60 - that she remarried, possibly in the US. I do have her lineage, though.

lesliethalo · 08-05-2012, 08:32 AM

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I am trying to locate all of my ancestors in census reports but they kept disappearing! I wonder if there were people who just didn't trust the census. I had trouble getting a relative to fill out the 2010 census. Just didn't think it was anyone's business where he was or WHO he was. I filled mine out but he objected and never did fill out his own. I wonder if this was common...the census taker would appear at the door and the homeowner wouldn't respond.

My father's family do not show in the 1930 census (tho in the 1920 and 1940)...we suspect a case of 'staying under the radar' especially since my dad used to tell stories of him riding shotgun on whiskey smuggling trips over the Canadian border during prohibition. My grandfather's occupation was fruit-truck driver for Marchetti Fruit (lots of intermarrying between the two clans) and I'm sure some extra $$ came in handy.

There's a report on ancestry.com on how the censuses were taken and why they might have errors, or missing info. If the main occupants weren't at home, or didn't report, the census taker would ask neighbors. People were more in each others' business in those days :0

**shazzt** · 08-07-2012, 05:21 AM

I flit from one thing to another....
I am quite interested to find out more about this family. The parents both died in India within a month of each other and I am very curious to find out how their young children made it back to Scotland:

Orphaned in India

*addielee* · 08-10-2012, 12:10 AM

I am searching for my great-great-grandmother's mother's name. I know her first name is Jane and I know a lot of details from after 1860 in Sheffield, but nothing mentions her maiden name.

ebears · 08-10-2012, 07:25 AM

On my recent caravan trip I visited a place in South Australia called Cleve where I visited the local cemetry and found the grave of my ancestor Peter Henderson. Tonight I was reading a book written about my ancestor and they have him buried somewhere else. Mistakes can happen all the time and myths can arise over time.

*addielee* · 08-10-2012, 09:01 PM

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I am searching for my great-great-grandmother's mother's name. I know her first name is Jane and I know a lot of details from after 1860 in Sheffield, but nothing mentions her maiden name.

I just found her on FreeBMD!! Jane Staniforth or Stainforth! I'm so excited! i guess i need to order the marriage certificate to find out which it really is.

PK · 08-29-2012, 06:38 PM

I have an problem that I have no clue how to get past.

My husband knows almost nothing about his father's side. He knows the name and dates of his father, and the names and some rough dates of his father's parents, and the name only of one brother, but that's it. We have birth locations for his father & grandfather, and death location each of them.
We do have his father's death certificate.

Given this little info, what can I do to find more info?

Theoretically I should be able to find the grandfather at least in the US Census records, but with such a common name, and so little info, I doubt it will be easy.

PQ · 08-29-2012, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PK

I have an problem that I have no clue how to get past.

My husband knows almost nothing about his father's side. He knows the name and dates of his father, and the names and some rough dates of his father's parents, and the name only of one brother, but that's it. We have birth locations for his father & grandfather, and death location each of them.
We do have his father's death certificate.

Given this little info, what can I do to find more info?

Theoretically I should be able to find the grandfather at least in the US Census records, but with such a common name, and so little info, I doubt it will be easy.

Have you looked in Findagrave.com?

mshawnee1 · 08-29-2012, 07:44 PM

All of the census reports are free on Ancestry this weekend, so even though it's common, it's worth a try. Also I wanted to ditto PQ's mention of Findagrave. I broke down a huge brick wall there, and my ancestor's name was George Washington. Not THE George, but just the same very difficult to search or google. Also try Rootsweb, one of my other favorite places. On Rootsweb they have Surname forums, (and geographical forums too) but you can go to that particular Surname forum and tell them who you're looking for. Somebody in your line is probably there.

PK · 08-29-2012, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by PQ

Have you looked in Findagrave.com?

yes - no luck with so few details

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All of the census reports are free on Ancestry this weekend, so even though it's common, it's worth a try. Also I wanted to ditto PQ's mention of Findagrave. I broke down a huge brick wall there, and my ancestor's name was George Washington. Not THE George, but just the same very difficult to search or google. Also try Rootsweb, one of my other favorite places. On Rootsweb they have Surname forums, (and geographical forums too) but you can go to that particular Surname forum and tell them who you're looking for. Somebody in your line is probably there.

I'm looking in the US Census today

With the name "Charles Thompson" and the location of "Ohio" born "1917" and no parents names I am not having ANY luck at all in working out which Charles Thompson born in 1917 in Ohio is "my" Charles in the Census records or any of the grave records I have seen.
My husbands father was born here in Australia, but I don't know where the brother or the mother were born, or even where the parents were married

And I can't order the parents death certificates either because here in Australia, unless I have a paper trail of proof of relationship, I have to wait until they have been dead for at least 30 years, and know the actual date of death, and I only have a year for each, which means extra search fees.