Re: Looking for info
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Looking for info
4/10/13
There are 4 people named Ann Bell, born in Georgia 1930-1932, on the 1940 census. There are 3 people with the name Mary Bell. Both times I looked at whites, and excluded the ones that gave a different middle initial than M.or A.
There is an Ann M. Bell, b 1931, in Griffin, Spaulding, GA, but I don't know if that's her.
The Duke University yearbooks are online; I looked at 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954 and there isn't anybody named Ann Bell or Mary Bell in those years.
http://archive.org/stream/chanticleerseria1951duke#page/n5/mode/2uphttp://archive.org/stream/chanticleerseria1951duke#page/n5/mode/2up
This will give you an idea of where to look.
It was very common in those days for both the mother and the adoption agencies to falsify information, to make the babies more attractive and adoptable and to protect the mothers' identities. I have helped other adoptees, along with others on here, and what was told to the adopted parents usually isn't anywhere near the truth.
California Birth Index, 1905-1995
about Gavin Mckean Griffith
Name:
Gavin Mckean Griffith
Birth Date:
17 Feb 1954
Gender:
Male
Mother's Maiden Name:
Everts
Birth County:
San Francisco
Arlyce was born in Moody County, SD to Heiko B (1902 IL) and Maxine West Everts (1905 SD) and was in the 1930 census. They were married 5/14/1922 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, SD. Both of them were from Dell Rapids.
Heiko's grave and obit:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=EV&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=44&GScntry=4&GSsr=921&GRid=25574589&http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=EV&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=44&GScntry=4&GSsr=921&GRid=25574589&
Maxine's grave:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Everts&GSiman=1&GScid=180104&GRid=25574584&http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Everts&GSiman=1&GScid=180104&GRid=25574584&
In 1935 she was in Dell Rapids, Minnihaha, South Dakota. Her father was b in Freeport IL and her mother was born in Michal SD.
Heiko was born in Freeport and in 1910, his parents, his brother George (1897 IL) and he lived in Midland, Lyon, IA. By 1915 they were in Minnehaha County. Rinard (b Ger 1868, 2nd marriage to Altve, married 7 yrs) imm 1890. Altve (Ger 1873) imm 1900. George was b 12/8/1896 in Seward IL and his father is listed as Reimer.
Reimer ( R O ) was divorced by 1920 and living in Minnehaha County. In the 1935 state census, he states that his original marriage year was 1895.
Reimer's grave and obit
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=EV&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=44&GScntry=4&GSsr=961&GRid=48425240&http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=EV&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=44&GScntry=4&GSsr=961&GRid=48425240&
Reimer (Rimer) was in Ridott, Stephenson County, IL in 1900. He was married to Yuyz?, b Ger 1869 and they were married 5 years, she had 3 children, 1 living. Their son was Henry (George), 3 years old. He imm 1890, she imm 1882.