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Subject: [PAPHILA] Elusive people
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:15:11 EDT


In a message dated 11/07/2002 6:03:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:


> "You might try the city directory for him until he drops out."
>
>
> Doesn't always work. I did that with my great-grandparents. My
> great-granddad stopped showing up after the 1925 City Directory (and my
> grandmother said on her 1929 marriage license application that her dad was
> deceased). My great-grandmother showed up in the 1930 City Directory
> (there was no 1931-34 directories at the Historical Society of PA) and she
> isn't in the 1935 City Directory.
>
> I asked for 10 year searches based on those and all I got back from New
> Castle were two "Certificates of No Record."

And these were fairly modern certificates I couldn't get!


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