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Locating Minnesota
Records
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| What We
Knew: |
Client’s
great-grandfather came to the Twin Cities in the
1880s. My client was an active genealogist and
had already found considerable information and
developed an extensive family tree. |
What We Wanted: |
The client was located in another state and did not have easy access to all of the resources within Minnesota. The main value I could add was to identify and access information in Minnesota to which she did not have direct access and continue to pursue the remaining puzzles in her search. One of the puzzles she hoped to solve was to learn where her great-grandfather came from in Europe. Because he came over fairly early the typical source of immigration records wouldn’t provide that information. |
| What We Found: |
Initially I
focused my efforts on information specific to
Minnesota although I expanded it to census and
immigration records later in our search as I found
new branches to the family. Information I
found or reviewed included:
The findings were
too extensive to list, but the most valuable
discovery was her great-grandfather's will. It
revealed the European town he came from, a new
family branch from a sister of whom we were unaware
and many of the causes that he supported. In
the process of my search, I also had a serendipitous
discovery. At the Jewish Historical
Society I stumbled across a scrapbook for the
local high school and inserted into its pages was a
program from 1911 of a theater performance for the
Jewish Home for the Aged. Performing in that
program were her grandmother and two of her
grandmother's siblings. Sometimes we're just
lucky!
Case Studies |
Finding Prior
Generations
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| What We Knew: | We started out with the birth year of my client’s grandmother, an estimated immigration date and a few of the names of her grandmother’s siblings. There was no family left who would be able to provide additional information. |
| What We Wanted: | My client wanted to learn where her grandmother came from. She also wanted to identify family members associated with her grandmother and work back several generations. The client’s family records were primarily in New York and Eastern Europe. |
| What We Found: | I located immigration, census, naturalization and death records. I also reviewed both European census lists and Holocaust records for family names from the identified town. From these records we learned the following:
Interestingly we discovered that her widowed great-grandfather brought over the older children in 1904 to stay with his brother, his sister and her husband. Ten years later he returned to stay bringing over the younger children. Our next step is to use this information to locate family in Argentina. Case Studies |