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From: Sherry Rubin <>
Subject: RE: Death certificates- S David Campbell
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:14:58 -0500


Hello Connie,


You are right....... You have to be a detective. =20

My husband and I have been to grave yards, saw my ancestors grave stone =
engraving exactly where my grandmother said they would be. Some =
genealogists still question the gravestones!!!

Where is the line drawn? We have all kinds of proof of my relatives =
including my maternal grandmother. I was close to her, got all of her =
personal furniture and belongings which included Bible records and all =
of her mother's families birth and death dates etc. I was at my =
grandmother's funeral. My husband was a Pall barer at her funeral in =
1969, yet her social security records show she died in 1970. This is =
just one of many mistakes we have found.

I have letters with returned postage stamped and dated 1911 of my great =
grandmother searching for her parent's (Patricks) born in England, yet =
the Historical Society in Camden, NJ have nothing as though she never =
existed. If we dig into address directories we see her address stating =
that she really did live where I said she lived. How I know she lived =
on 927 Kimber Street in Camden, NJ 1935 is because my mother lived there =
too. Both my mother and father lived with my grandmother until they =
could finish building their house in Magnolia, NJ.=20

Now, I was born in Camden, NJ and lived at the same address as my father =
and mother and grandmother. They have nothing about my mother., This =
was really far fetched.

Believe me we both know about being patient. We have been searching for =
my grandmother records for twenty years.

I certainly know of my mother I have her birth certificate and yet NJ =
can not provide me a death certificate. We have tried different dates, =
which is ridiculous to start with. I certainly know when my mother =
died.

These are just a few of the walls that we have not been able to break =
down.

Hope you have better luck than I have had.

Sincerely,

Sherry

-----Original Message-----
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Sent:Saturday, March 22, 1997 8:17 PM
To:S. Rubin
Subject:Re: Death certificates- S David Campbell


Anything is possible, of course, but this seems most unlikely. =
Especially
since there are many records for Campbell's that have not been =
destroyed.
Could it be that you have the wrong counties? Deaths, births and =
marriages
were registered in the counties in which they took place, not where the
individual lived. My grandmother is very much dead, yet the county where =
she
lived and was buried has no record of same. There is a record of her
marriage. She may have died in the next county or even in another state.
That's the fun of genealogy. You have to be a detective.

Don't give up!

Connie
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