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Category Archives: Goliński
Online Death Indexes
Online Death Indexes provide useful sources of birth and death information. For the most part, these Death Indexes are transcriptions of other Indexes and are subject to the errors associated with transcriptions. Ancestry.com offers the following State death indexes: Alabama 1908-1959 … Continue reading
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Social Security Records
Social Security Records, including the Social Security Death Index and the SS-5 Application for a Social Security Account Number, are some of the first records I examined when I first started to compile my family tree . I used the … Continue reading
Marianna and the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
From the 1920 and 1930 US Federal Census Records, I discovered that my Great Aunt Mary immigrated in either 1909 or 1910 . A search of the Ellis Island Passenger Lists reveals a Marianna Danko who arrived at Ellis Island in … Continue reading
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Tagged Immigration, Nienadowa, Worcester Massachusetts
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Great Aunt Mary’s Birthdate in the US Census
My grandfather, Michael Danko, was the first of my ancestors to immigrate to the United States . After arriving in America, he lived in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts the rest of his life . He and his family are enumerated in the … Continue reading
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When Was Great Aunt Mary Born?
My Great Aunt Mary, the sister of my grandfather Michael Danko, was the only one of my grandfather’s siblings to come to America . When I first started to assemble information on my family, I contacted Mary’s daughter Fran and … Continue reading
Massachusetts Cemetery Records
Two previous entries on this blog have dealt with cemetery records, so it’s about time to see what some of these records look like. My experiences in cemeteries have been varied – the employees at some cemeteries have bent over backwards to help me find the graves for which I was looking, providing me with maps, copies of the burial records, and directions to the graves. Others have been quite unfriendly, asking “Is this for genealogy?” (usually accompanied by a cold stare). Some cemeteries have charged for copies of the burial records, others have not. In general, if the cemetery doesn’t charge for the copies and the employees have been helpful, I usually offer to make a donation. Sometimes there is a “Friends of the Cemetery” group or a special project for which the cemetery is raising funds. Continue reading
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Tagged Worcester Massachusetts
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