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From: kathy delisle <>
Subject: Nelson family in Rochester, NY
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:01:14 -0500


I have previously put requests on this list for Rochester Directory
lookups. I hope folks won't mind another. Until now, no one has hit on
the correct "August Nelson," my grandfather. But I had a strange twist
come up.

I received the SS-5 (Social Security application form) for an aunt, one
of his daughters, who had scribbled out one name and wrote instead "Nils
Peter Nelson" - I am wondering if he changed his name early on, and this
was his real name when he came over. I have found this name combination
in the Boston directories (though he was August by then) so I know that
it can be a 'real' name. (It may also explain why Albany sent the wrong
birth certificate for my grandmother.)

If someone has the time and patience to do a Rochester Directory lookup
c. 1900- 1905, for listings of: Nils Peter Nelson, who would have had an
unskilled job (laborer, etc - he became a barber later.) - I would be
very thankful!

Kathy Delisle

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