Locating two aunts in the US after they immigrated
Hi,
I have two great aunts who immigrated to the US from Norway. Hansine arrived in 1904, her passenger list is the last document I have found for her so far.
Katherine arrived in 1907. I found someone who is likely her in the 1910 census and in another passenger list from returning from a trip back to Norway in 1914.
I have searched (using wild cards) censuses, directories, marriage, death records. I used the address from Katherine's second passenger list to go up and down the street in the census to locate them. I used SteveMorse to peruse the street to locate their residence, the house number was not in the census.
I've searched for Lutheran church
Does anyone have any research suggestions?
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You've got a lot of great information about your aunts here. However, it is a little difficult to give additional research suggestions because you didn't mention your aunts' surname or where in the United States they went. The passenger lists should specify where they were going and a relative or friend who lived there. That information would be where I would next follow-up. See if you can find those relatives/friends in the location provided and research them to see if your aunts stayed near them. Also, investigate newspapers in those same areas to see if anything shows up about your aunts. Do you have your own grandparents' obituaries? Often they will mention brothers and sisters and at the least a city where those siblings lived, even if they stayed in the old country. Were these aunts single when they came over or already married? If single, they probably married pretty quickly, so it might be worth your while to search marriage records in those same places (the places listed on the passenger list.)
Here is a passenger list in 1904 that shows the information that I'm talking about:
The first line says the passenger's final destination is New Orleans, and he is going to 'his grandfather La Barbera, Frank,' the address looks like English Canyon, N. O. La (New Orleans, Louisiana).
You can see that the third entry is for someone going to San Jose, Ca and below that, Patterson, La.
If you post your aunts' surnames and locations in the US, folks here might be able to suggest other research directions.
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I often have this same problem with my Swedish ancestors – the Lutheran priests in Sweden provide yearly wonderful information, and then my ancestors move to the US and I can’t find them, or can’t determine which “John Johnson” is mine. Something that helps solve this is, if you have a full birth dates, and they eventually show up in US Social Security records, you can go to Ancestry.com/Search/Card Catalog/in Keywords type “Social Security”/Search, and you will get two US Social Security tools, one with 133 million and the other with 94million names that often have full names and/or full birth dates.
Good Hunting!
Ronald H. Olson
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Thank you Anne and Ronald for your suggestions. I really appreciate you taking the time to review my post and offer suggestions!
I hadn't thought to look in the Social Security Indexes! I dove in and used various search options for their names, however, no one had their birthday or close to it. I found 76 options for Katherine, and I feel like I need more data to make comparisons to prove or disprove.
Further information for the sisters.
Yes, both of these sisters were single when they immigrated. I've tried to follow any FAN club members. They were not in my gr-grandpa's household in 1910, he was in UT for a masonry job.
Hansine Sofie Reinhartsen (Father's last name in Norway) - Yndestad (Farm name) - Hansen (probable Americanized surname) DOB: 5 Oct 1877 Norway
The 1904 passenger list for her states she's going to Colorado to my gr-grandpa's. My dad didn't even know these ladies had immigrated to the states until I told him about it. I've looked online and asked in the family if anyone has gr-grandpa's obit. So far no one does.
I found a possible candidate for Hansine in the 1910 Census in New Trier, Illinois. It has the correct name, birth place, and immigration year, however, age is missing.
Katherine Reinhartsen (Father's last name in Norway) - Yndestad (Farm name) - Hansen (probable Americanized surname) DOB: 27 Oct 1885 Norway
The 1907 passenger list for her states she is going to my gr-grandpa's in Colorado as well. In 1910 I find a likely candidate for her in Colorado working as a servant which was her occupation in Norway.
Her second passenger list in 1914 (her return from a trip back to Norway) shows she is still single, her last permanent address is in Chicago, Illinois. She going to a friend's Miss or Mrs Bert. Clausen, 4571 Clifton Ave, Chicago, IL. I looked for this friend in the 1920 census through Steve Morse literally going up and down the streets. The house numbers stopped before reaching 4571. I also scoured city directories for Katherine and her friend with zero results.
If anyone has any further suggestions, I would appreciate them!
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You are doing some great research!
If you think either of these sisters may have MARRIED before their demises, you may want to research some or all of the leads below, especially if any of the "Death Date" and/or “Last Residence” places may have been theirs.
Good Hunting!
Ronald H. Olson
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Is Hansine Sofie Reinhardtsdatter G4BP-P2K your aunt that you are looking for? I went through the records already attached to her and saw that at least at one time she went by the nickname Sine. Have you searched for her by that name? I do find two that show up in a 1915 Directory in Denver, one is a waitress, the other is a maid. (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/14412201?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=QoY257&_phstart=successSource&pId=898217386) The waitress appears from 1914-1917, and interestingly, your grandfather Reinhart Hansen doesn't show up in the directories for those years. He doesn't show up until 1918.
I do find this burial record for a Sina F Hansen in Denver as well.
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