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This is my great great grandmother’s name. Best guesses?
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My great great grandfather
Leurie and Welsuia?
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American, english or French.
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I think Grandpa-Great is Laurie. Grandma-great is tougher... the "W" (if it is) has a break or lighter section on the bottom of the second curve that does not match any of the other letters (thick bottom strokes). Almost as if it is two letters. Maybe Ul instead of W.
To be honest, it might help if we could see more of the document. If there are more recognizable letters, we might be able to piece it together better.
To be honest, it might help if we could see more of the document. If there are more recognizable letters, we might be able to piece it together better.
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My great grandparents marriage on Feb 13. The second set of entries.
It is from the town of Hull. It doesn't look like an H on the top of the page at all. So frustrating.
It is from the town of Hull. It doesn't look like an H on the top of the page at all. So frustrating.
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Laurie and Melvina (look at the obvious Margaret a few lines down)
My wife has done a ton of genealogy stuff and has looked at a lot of old records like this. There is also an obvious Henrietta below that helps identify the n.
My wife has done a ton of genealogy stuff and has looked at a lot of old records like this. There is also an obvious Henrietta below that helps identify the n.
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My GG grandfather we know fought in the Civil War because we have artifacts and his discharge papers at the end of the war but a couple years ago I dug deeper. Found a site that got me back to the Revolutionary War where his grandfather fought and even before that to England where I hit a wall in the early 1600’s. The site I used was
https://www.findagrave.com/ and I was very easy to use because it shows all name, date of birth and death and early ancestry. Don’t know if it still gives one a huge hand in finding more but it was fun to do, a breeze and free.
https://www.findagrave.com/ and I was very easy to use because it shows all name, date of birth and death and early ancestry. Don’t know if it still gives one a huge hand in finding more but it was fun to do, a breeze and free.
Being in Utah, thanks to the Mormons, genealogy is a big deal. I've been able to track my lineage through the last governor of Plymouth Colony, Thomas Hinckley, to England just after the end of the dark ages. We use ancestry.com for our research.
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Turned out that my dad’s mom was Mormon. Right up until she had the audacity to marry a soldier that wasn’t Mormon. The family disowned her. When he died , leaving a pregnant wife her”family” did nothing to help.
Don’t ask my opinion of the Mormon faith.
Don’t ask my opinion of the Mormon faith.
I was raised that way... I'm catholic now... I get it.
hard to believe but Rosalie and Joseph.
The Mormons will let you create a free account on their genealogy website familysearch.org and after you do that, you can find your parents and backtrack, as long as someone along the way has entered the info. Much easier to read than old handwriting.
It gets murky several generations back, or at least it did for me. My mother's side, by family lore, traces back to Abe Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd (yes, I know she was crazy), but via an nth cousin type relationship (like, my mom was thought to be her 7th cousin or such) which really explodes into a mind-numbing number of branches that far back. Never was able to verify that connection, but it was a fun exercise. My wife joined ancestry.com for a 6-month period a few years ago in search of roots for her grandmother, who was adopted. I got on there while I could and found that in some cases, there is more info on the free Mormon site.
It gets murky several generations back, or at least it did for me. My mother's side, by family lore, traces back to Abe Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd (yes, I know she was crazy), but via an nth cousin type relationship (like, my mom was thought to be her 7th cousin or such) which really explodes into a mind-numbing number of branches that far back. Never was able to verify that connection, but it was a fun exercise. My wife joined ancestry.com for a 6-month period a few years ago in search of roots for her grandmother, who was adopted. I got on there while I could and found that in some cases, there is more info on the free Mormon site.
Bob Wright
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My mother had a distant relative who published a book about her sideof the family. Went back to England in the 1000s and mentions me by name and that I was married and had a daughter. Dad got interested and bought a bool about the Wright family but it was too generic and that was as far as he got.
Mother's book contained a Lord de la Warr, whos became the first govenor of Delaware.
We were tallking at church one Sunday about family and I mentioned that my Dad was a "character." Most said they were not surprised!
Bob Wright
Mother's book contained a Lord de la Warr, whos became the first govenor of Delaware.
We were tallking at church one Sunday about family and I mentioned that my Dad was a "character." Most said they were not surprised!
Bob Wright
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Those are my great grandparents, I’m trying to decipher Josephs parents.
Grandfather sure looks like Lewis and I would guess. the grandmother as Wilamina? or maybe: Welyis
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Been there done that. I often have a bit of trouble reading my own handwriting.
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Found another document (his birth record) has them as Louis (Lewis) and Malorisa maybe Malvina? Lol. 
Thanks for your help guys.
Thanks for your help guys.
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that sure looks like a 'W' to me and not an 'M'.
You are not wrong. the clue was in some of the other names on the full page. What is frustrating is that the scribe makes their capital M's and W's almost the exact same way. A few lines below is a Margaret Walker, a more "common" name that is easily identified. The first letters of each name are almost identical. There is one major difference, they add a dropping tail on their capital M's (circled in red), just barely visible on Melvina, and a mid-level connector on their capital W's (circled in green).
The name above Margaret Walker appears to be Henrietta, but the lower-case e's, n's, & i's all look to be the exact same stroke.
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Anyone may establish a free account at FamilySearch.com
I did which led me to the Family Center at the Church of the Latter Day Saints in south Reno. One does not have to be a member of the church. I was welcomed there and they had free use of a room full of computers where one may access many different genealogical sites for FREE like Ancestry. In addition they had a library of books on family history. In particular, while working on my wife's ancestors, they had a book that showed her extended family had arrived in New England, shortly after the Mayflower.
One hundred years later many of the migrated to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and the newspaper there would publish births, marriages, deaths, etc. Around 1800 the editor of the paper gathered up all the previous info on several of the familes then published them into a book. I found a copy of the book at the Family Center and got a lot of info on my wife's ancestors.
I have been working on genealogy off and on for a decade now after my cousin sent me a picture of my G'father who passed when I was still a baby. I found out his name as well. Thereafter I began searching for him through Ancestry and found more info.
FYI: I gathered so much info that I had to store it somewhere. Some of the people at the Family Center store what they find on paper (extremely tedious), on memory sticks and other devices. I discovered an app called Legacy, now in it's 10th edition. Originally cost only $40, but well worth it. I also bought the book that shows how to navigate around the app. I strongly urge anyone who wants to delve deeply into their family history to try out this route if one has a Family Center nearby. Good Luck and when I find something, I usually yell out "Eureka!"
I did which led me to the Family Center at the Church of the Latter Day Saints in south Reno. One does not have to be a member of the church. I was welcomed there and they had free use of a room full of computers where one may access many different genealogical sites for FREE like Ancestry. In addition they had a library of books on family history. In particular, while working on my wife's ancestors, they had a book that showed her extended family had arrived in New England, shortly after the Mayflower.
One hundred years later many of the migrated to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and the newspaper there would publish births, marriages, deaths, etc. Around 1800 the editor of the paper gathered up all the previous info on several of the familes then published them into a book. I found a copy of the book at the Family Center and got a lot of info on my wife's ancestors.
I have been working on genealogy off and on for a decade now after my cousin sent me a picture of my G'father who passed when I was still a baby. I found out his name as well. Thereafter I began searching for him through Ancestry and found more info.
FYI: I gathered so much info that I had to store it somewhere. Some of the people at the Family Center store what they find on paper (extremely tedious), on memory sticks and other devices. I discovered an app called Legacy, now in it's 10th edition. Originally cost only $40, but well worth it. I also bought the book that shows how to navigate around the app. I strongly urge anyone who wants to delve deeply into their family history to try out this route if one has a Family Center nearby. Good Luck and when I find something, I usually yell out "Eureka!"
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The Family history said Joseph Edward had changed his last name to join the Army at 15 he said he was an orphan and no records.
It was like a stone wall. We couldn't get past.
Especially not being sure of his parents names.
Turns out he changed his first name to Joseph kept Edward as his middle name. Didn't change his last name.
Once we found his birth record with the exact same birthday on his headstone. It listed his parents legibly as Louis and Malorisa. Found another document that said they couldn't read or write. Which explains his name being spelled 2 different ways. He said Lewis, the clerk wrote Louis
He served in the Army at Ft Strong in Boston Harbor. Got married in 1912. Ended his enlistment got a job as a Teamster, and died at 38 in a wagon accident. He was apparently hauling dead bodies during the Spanish Flu epidemic fell and was decapitated by a wheel
Thanks for all of your help.
It was like a stone wall. We couldn't get past.
Especially not being sure of his parents names.
Turns out he changed his first name to Joseph kept Edward as his middle name. Didn't change his last name.
Once we found his birth record with the exact same birthday on his headstone. It listed his parents legibly as Louis and Malorisa. Found another document that said they couldn't read or write. Which explains his name being spelled 2 different ways. He said Lewis, the clerk wrote Louis
He served in the Army at Ft Strong in Boston Harbor. Got married in 1912. Ended his enlistment got a job as a Teamster, and died at 38 in a wagon accident. He was apparently hauling dead bodies during the Spanish Flu epidemic fell and was decapitated by a wheel
Thanks for all of your help.
I'm glad you were able to figure it out! Good luck and congratulations!
