Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Can you help find my friend, Daniell G. Affordile?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Can you help find my friend, Daniell G. Affordile?
- Question: I am looking for parents of james robinson (1872) born in ks. does any one know about matlinda holloway possible his mother?
- Question: What would be the cousinship of my friends great great grandfather being my grandfather's uncle?
- Question: I don't know what to do next? I can't find anymore info on my ancestors in the census?
- Question: How do I find out my ethnicity if my dad is adopted?
- Question: Does anyone know anything about the surname Kroen? is it German, and how is it properly pronounced? (Is it Bohemian?)?
| Question: Can you help find my friend, Daniell G. Affordile? Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:20 PM PDT Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2015 09:21 AM PDT I found 3 in Ancestry.com: These ones are black. Melinda Robinson 48 Head These ones are white: These ones are white too: If yours is black, the first family may be him. "Melinda" is much more common than "Metlinda". It is "Melinda" in the image, so either The Holloway step children tell us that Melinda married a man named Holloway, who had children by a previous marriage. He died, and she married a Mr. Robinson, and had two children by him. He then died too, sometime between 1874 and 1880. Robinson is awfully common. The man you seek may be "J. R." instead of James, and his surname might have been "Robins" on the 1880. These are the only three I looked at, but there are lots of possibilities. If you have ANY more details, click on the blue "Edit" box, select "Add details", and add them. Most of the regulars here are darn good, and can pull rabbits out of a hat. Look at |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2015 07:22 AM PDT If he married your great grandfather's sister, he is your grandfather's uncle by marriage, and there is no relationship. If he is your great grandfather's brother, let us work it out, one generation per line: Your GGF & Man in Question = brothers You and your friend are 3rd cousins once removed through his/her parent, MiQ's great grandchild. "Removed" means "generations apart" in cousins. I threw in your future child as a bonus. User "Shroud" is mixing up degree - 1st, 2nd, 3rd - with removed. A lot of people do. But he is right - if your friend is a guy, you are far enough apart to date and marry, if that was behind your question; it is in about half of the questions we get about cousins. Your grandfather and your friend are first cousins 3 times removed, for an example of 3 times removed; again, unless MiQ is an uncle by marriage, in which case there is no relation. Please don't forget to choose a best answer. It doesn't have to be mine. 10 points aren't much, but they tell us you read the answers and we didn't flush 8 minutes of research and/or typing down the toilet. |
| Question: I don't know what to do next? I can't find anymore info on my ancestors in the census? Posted: 01 Apr 2015 12:16 AM PDT I think that has to be your Perry & Laney on the 1870 census. I've seen quite a few instances where the census taker flip-flopped the first and last name on a random household. It happened with one of my ancestors; instead of "Bridges, John" he wrote "John Bridges" - but John was written so sloppily, it looked like Jobin, so the whole family was indexed with the surname Jobin. I had to scroll through the entire county page by page to find them. But anyway, this has to be them: 1870 Census - Thomas County, Georgia - West of County Line & Duncanville Rd The ages for Perry, Laney and Lucie in 1880 all mesh with the 1870. Maybe Mary is Perry's mother? Don't know if you have an Ancestry subscription, but have you seen this 1871 Property Tax Digest? It lists Perry Smith as a freedman and employee of Henry Mitchell in Duncanville, Thomas County, Georgia: And what about this Perry Smith who died in 1925 in Dekalb County, Georgia? Could that be him? His age is about right. Dekalb County is pretty far from Thomas County, but it's near Atlanta and maybe one of his kids had moved up there? It lists his parents as Floyd Smith and Mary Jones: https://familysearch.or/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-... His address is 403 Robin Street; same address as the informant, Susie Malcome. If this is him in 1900, he does have a daughter Susan: Name: Perry Smith "Is it possible to get info on a black ancestor before the 1870 census?" Yes, sometimes - if you're lucky and willing to do some digging. Assuming he was a slave, he won't be on the 1860 census. The place to look is in the records of his slaveowner. If Perry was owned by someone who died before emancipation, his name will likely be in the slaveowner's probate records; possibly in his will, and/or probably in the estate inventory. If, during his time in slavery, he was sold, given as a "gift", or leased out to work for someone else, you may find the transaction recorded in the deed books. Of course, in order to look for these records, you'll need to know his slaveowner's name, or at least have it narrowed down to a few suspects. That 1871 tax record, showing him working for Henry Mitchell, might be a clue. Some freedmen did stay on and work for their former slaveowners after emancipation. Surnames can also be a clue. If you find any white Smith families living close to Perry on the 1870 census, they could be possibilities. But not all slaves took the name of their last slaveowner. He could have been owned by, say, Henry Mitchell, but his father had been originally owned by a Smith family and used that surname. Or, he could've chosen Smith for another reason. Familysearch has images of probate records for Thomas County, Georgia. They aren't indexed, so you'd have to scroll through them. Huge undertaking... but at least you can do it at home, rather than making a trip to the Thomas County courthouse. https://familysearch.org/search/image/in... |
| Question: How do I find out my ethnicity if my dad is adopted? Posted: 31 Mar 2015 05:26 PM PDT I think you mean your ancestry, the people who you are related to, and in reality you can only do that by researching, difficult if your father was adopted, so your father needs to see if he can get his adoption file and hope that it gives his parents names and possibly other identifying information as with them you have a chance to start to research back, if not then at least you can research your mothers side of the family, which is better than no research at all As YOUR ethnicity you already know, it is YOUR cultures, customs , affiliations and associations in YOUR home and the country YOU were born, brought up , live in, so the language YOU speak the food YOU eat, that is YOUR ethncity. |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2015 05:15 PM PDT Any/All surnames are words and they all come from languages NOT countries, so if you are doing research then don't get side tracked and word hunt as it will never tell you where the people who used ( chose) the name came from. Word history and the people history are two different things and unrelated, languages spread, people spoke, heard and were influenced by several languages not necessarily the 'origin' country of the language. For example in the UK, Latin, French and Old English was the languages of the day when surname were chosen, choosing a word from one of those languages doesn't mean the they or their ancestors came from anywhere else, same as Mexican who chose/given Spanish words as names, it doesn't mean their ancestors were Spanish, it was just the language the word chosen/given as a surname came from |
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