Tierney Tarney Turney Tunney.... in the 1920s you may have it a bit easier, but then there's the stupid immigration officer factor.
For Montreal property records see if "hotel de ville" gets you anywhere. It's a guess, not checked, but an educated guess nonetheless. Is it actually Montreal or one of the smaller municipalites on the island. East side or west? Or maybe Westmount? On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:28 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Genealogy (was: Apparently Arizona has its own Mullahs) > > <snipped> > > I dont have a clue as to how >> they got here...I haven't found any ship manifests with my grandfather or >> great grandfather's name on it yet. >> >> My Polish ancestors were Jewish (more precisely, >> Polish/Czechoslovakian/Lithuanian Jews). The problem is that they changed >> their name to Lucas when they came to the US and we have no idea what > their >> name was in Poland. I also dont speak Polish, so that is another > barrier. > > Isn't it great when that happens? I had that happen on my mother's > side -- someone who is probably a third cousin through the woman my > mother's grandfather married did a lot of the Ontario stuff. The stuff > we do know matches her tree. According to that, we're descended from > the first child born in Upper Canada, which does make me a bit > suspicious. And... > > ***Yeah...just to throw a wrench in the gears, we dont know anything about > her husband. She was either divorced (doubtfully), he died in Poland, or > stayed behind. She came with my grandmothers father and uncle. As I said > before, she had a sister in Montreal and I have 2 border crossing documents > from 2 of her trips. One lists her sister's last name as Mimzender and the > other as Misenberg. I was talking to a guy on the Montreal board on > ancestry.com and he had an Mitzenbug in his family who lived at the same > address in the 1920's and 30's when my ggrandmother went for the visits. My > Great Uncle thinks it's yet another name...so I have 4 potential last names. > I probably have family there to this day...it would be cool to get in touch > with them. I need to find who to talk to in Montreal about property records > and also contact some of the Synagogues up there to see if they may be able > to shed some light on the subject. The house she lived in is no longer > there. I google mapped it and looked at the street view...it's now a > parking lot.**** > > If you google some of the names you come up with more ancestry.com > trees, some of which say we're descended from a guy knighted by Anne > Boleyn. But the same tree that mentions this also claims as an > ancestor someone born in Main in 1503 or something. So...wait. In > 1503... damn few Europeans weere being born in Maine and the Indians > that *were* probably weren't keeping good track of the day and month > of birth. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. > > Just saying, there's a hole in the road there. > > ***a hole? Sounds more like an impact crater hhehehe*** > > <snipp > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318613 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
