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From: Braden Brown <>
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:12:05 +1200
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Ann ,
Irish Free State was the name given in 1928 to what is now Eire, or (
Southern )Ireland .

Have a nice Day

Bill In Weymouth N.Z.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beretta" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups


> Ann,
>
> A couple things.. Number one, good to see you back online!
>
> Send me your snail mail address off list and I'll get you a good map of
> street addresses in Charlotte Amalie. It makes wading through the
> census much better.
>
> Which Adams family are you looking at? I'm interested in the maternal
> ancestors of Alton Adams (the Bandmaster).
>
> Tell us more about your search for your paternal grandparents- perhaps I
> can find a clue for you in my info..
>
> Dante
>
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 04:00 AM, CARIBBEAN-D-
> wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> >
> > Yo Richard,
> > The 1917/20 census is the one that the Danish completed for the
> > transfer of
> > the islands, the US did not recount for the 1920 census, they just
> > incorporated it. There are some missing pages for St. Thomas.
> > The 1930 is very useful. I found Uncle Dully and Aunt Annette, and the
> > children, my parents and the three oldest children, Cousin Aarona's
> > first
> > son, and her sister, I found several Brewsters, but cannot make a
> > familial
> > connection with them. I have been able to fill in quite a bit of my
> > Benjamin(paternal) branches, the Degraff's, the Adams, Christians,
> > Lockharts, Bonelli's Venzen, Simmons, Francis, Newton, McGovern, and
> > that
> > is just St. Thomas. If I knew my way around St. Croix, I could do much
> > more. It is hard on the eyes to look at pages and pages of handwriting
> > of
> > old fountain pen that makes the lettering run together.
> > I am trying to find street maps so I can compare street name to census
> > and
> > know where I am.
> > Have you any idea what/where the "Irish Free State" is? It shows up as a
> > place of birth in the census.
> > Edie/Ann
>
>
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