Friday, March 04, 2011
Update on Nathan Goldfoot, grandfather
Another researcher has found Nathan Abraham Goldfoot b: 1871 in Ireland. The last I had found was that he had been at the Londonderry port in Ireland heading for Quebec, Canada on July 14, 1893 with a ticket to get off at Winnipeg. This port is at Lisahally near Derry, Ireland. It is a famous port where immigrants went to USA and Canada and is a deep sea port. He was only 22 years old. His birthday was either August 5 or 15th 1871. He was listed as age 22 on the ship's manifest . The ship was the Parisian, a huge steam and sail ship that looks an awful lot like the ship my Swedish grandmother came over on in 1888 only hers was the Orlando, which is now the icon on the Svenson Institute's website. . She also came through Canada. She told of being in steerage, so I imagine that Nathan was there as well on the Parisian. Immigrants were not rich people.
This new piece of information was a wedding registration found on familysearch. It included a middle name which has been unknown to the family. The online information only said that between January and March of 1893, he had married.
Let me interject that there were a lot of Goldfoots in Ireland, especially in Dublin. Stanley's family and relatives lived in Ireland. They had immigrated from Lithuania to England and from there found better ground in Ireland. Stanley and others had moved on to South Africa as well. It's possible that my grandfather, who's oral tradition has been that he had traveled with a brother or brothers to England, could have wound up in Ireland. This is two pieces of evidence, and the name: Nathan Goldfoot is extremely rare to non-existent.
Yesterday, on 3/3/11 I mailed in an application to Roscommon, Ireland to get the marriage certificate or registration paper, whatever they have. The online information was most scanty, just enough to tell me a little. This application also required my visa card information. Visa works even in Ireland. They're on Euro dollars. I just hope it will say more than birth was in "Russia." A town and country would be fantastic!
My most helpful researcher friend is a young man who matches some of my genome that I have found on 23&me. In trying to figure out how we have matched in a % of some of our genome, we started comparing names and places. They say there are no accidents, and that we believe in beshert. I certainly do now. He has been most helpful. I never would have thought to recheck Nathan on familysearch again. This is like going back to the same dig to find oil and suddently you get a strike. So in about two weeks I hope to have more to report.
This new piece of information was a wedding registration found on familysearch. It included a middle name which has been unknown to the family. The online information only said that between January and March of 1893, he had married.
Let me interject that there were a lot of Goldfoots in Ireland, especially in Dublin. Stanley's family and relatives lived in Ireland. They had immigrated from Lithuania to England and from there found better ground in Ireland. Stanley and others had moved on to South Africa as well. It's possible that my grandfather, who's oral tradition has been that he had traveled with a brother or brothers to England, could have wound up in Ireland. This is two pieces of evidence, and the name: Nathan Goldfoot is extremely rare to non-existent.
Yesterday, on 3/3/11 I mailed in an application to Roscommon, Ireland to get the marriage certificate or registration paper, whatever they have. The online information was most scanty, just enough to tell me a little. This application also required my visa card information. Visa works even in Ireland. They're on Euro dollars. I just hope it will say more than birth was in "Russia." A town and country would be fantastic!
My most helpful researcher friend is a young man who matches some of my genome that I have found on 23&me. In trying to figure out how we have matched in a % of some of our genome, we started comparing names and places. They say there are no accidents, and that we believe in beshert. I certainly do now. He has been most helpful. I never would have thought to recheck Nathan on familysearch again. This is like going back to the same dig to find oil and suddently you get a strike. So in about two weeks I hope to have more to report.
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