Welcome to Wrong Ancestor

Why Wrong Ancestor? Because sometimes we think we found the right person in our research only to realize later we had the wrong person, maybe the wrong family all along.

What to do with that mistake? I say, chronicle it with the hopes that one person's "mistake" is another person's relative. I'll post that information here with the hope that it will help another's genealogical research.

If you have a Wrong Ancestor in your tree, contact me and I'll post it here. My email is rightancestor@gmail.com. Or, leave it as a comment.

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Thank you,
Chris






Who are these people? No clue. (Photo Courtesy of The Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library)

Friday, April 23, 2010

Lots of Scots

I recently blazed through another round of research on the Scottish side of my family tree at the web site Scotlands People http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/. While I found (mostly) what I was looking for, there were the inevitable mistakes. What makes this a great site, is that the Scottish government (The General Registrar's Office to be precise, or the GRO) has scanned birth, marriage, and death records from 1855-present as well as the Old Parish Records (OPR) up to 1855 (the year that registering BMDs became compulsory). Of course, one is charged for looking at each individual document in the form pre-paid credits. Inevitably, there are "lucky guesses" and therefore, "unlucky guesses". I have years of "unlucky guesses" (or mis-educated guesses) that I'll post here in the coming weeks!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Wrong Ancestor: Death / Stillborn Holb

File Number: 3913

Name: STILLBORN of Mr. and Mrs. John Holb.
State: Ohio.
County: Summit.
City: Akron.
Place of Death: People's Hospital.
Residence: 792 Beardsley Street.

Sex: Female.
Race: White.

Date of Birth: October 12, 1926.
Birthplace: Akron, Ohio.

Father: John Holb.
Birthplace of Father: Austria-Hungary.
Mother: Anna Hausch.
Birthplace of Mother: Germany.

Informant: John Holb of 792 Beardsley Street.

Date of Death: October 12, 1926.
Cause of Death: STILLBORN.
What test confirmed Diagnosis: Chemical.

Burial: Mt. Peace Cemetery.
Date of Burial: 10/13/1926.
Undertaker: Prentice & Co. of 16 W. Miller.
Embalmer: E.H. Prentice.

Researching:
Holt, Akron, Ohio, Stillborn, 1920-1928