Help Finding Records (Iowa?)
Hi all. I need help finding records for someone whose only trace in America is a cemetery notation. It's like she just appeared in Iowa and died (without anyone reporting it): https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GDFK-X7C
There's unsourced birth and death dates on Find a Grave, but as I can’t contact the original manager, nor reach the current one, I'm out of luck. The cemetery superintendent only had the plot map, which did show that her burial was next to her son John’s wife.
I'd like to find something that says Anna was in America beyond just the notation, but any immigration, census, newspaper mentions, or even a death record has proved elusive. I even checked Janesville, WI census and death records, where other family lived, with no luck.
Any thoughts for how to proceed with the search? Thanks.
Melhor resposta
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@GFre Caveat: I browsed the family profiles, but I haven't opened all of them to check all the sources attached.
What about the birth records for some of the grandchildren listed as born in Iowa? Any chance Anna Friedrica was present at the birth?
I notice the arrival manifest attached to Albertina. It would appear that might be her father on the line just above her name. Perhaps Anna Friedrica traveled with one of the other children?1
Respostas
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Thank you, @Áine Ní Donnghaile. That's a great idea to check the grandchildren's birth records. I think church service was informal in Algona until a few years after her death, but maybe something was still recorded. I've been wondering if maybe contacting the local Methodist church is worth it or not. If they have that written down, it definitely would be!
Also, Anna might have some missing children. Unfortunately, the records where they later moved to in Prussia were destroyed. I do know that her son, Louis, was briefly in Canada. Perhaps Anna immigrated there at some point and just didn't come to America until after 1880? It's possible.
As to the man traveling with Albertina, he would've been too young to be the eldest, Charlotte's, father. Still, the year could've been incorrectly recorded.
I so appreciate getting some help!
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Just in case you haven't thought of it, look using each of her given names individually. The German ancestors in my family used their many given names at will, often changing from record to record.
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