From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Mar 13 12:57:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2DJv7jb012394; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:57:07 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2DJv4f4029860 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:57:04 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2DHQbFI016434 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:26:37 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2DHQbEb016433 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:26:37 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2DGIXFI016258 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:18:33 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2DImmQ2005111 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:48:48 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Dddarwin@aol.com Mon Mar 13 11:48:47 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2DImljb005100 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:48:47 -0700 Received: from imo-m17.mx.aol.com (imo-m17.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.207]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2DImkPl020623 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:48:46 -0700 Received: from Dddarwin@aol.com by imo-m17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.27f.72994b1 (48576) for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:48:30 -0500 (EST) From: Dddarwin@aol.com Message-ID: <27f.72994b1.3147187b@aol.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:48:27 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] RE: Genealogy Focus ANSWER TO BELOW: Sue, You said there was a conflict on his date of birth but you really didn't clear that matter up too well as to what the discrepancy was so I tried the WWI Draft Registrations hoping that he had filled one out before he died. I filled in only the name of Paul Adams and the month of birth as March. This is the only one that came up as viable. The month and the date were the same but the year was off, it was 1887 and not 1886. This is not an unusual occurrence by the way (grin). States he has a wife and child (no name.....sorry). It was dated June 5, 1917 in Los Angeles California. Further states he was born New York City and that he was employed as a Bellboy at the Hotel Angelus at Spring and Fourth Street. Description says: Medium Height; Medium Build; Blue Eyes; Black Hair. If you think this might be him let me know and I'll send you the image in a download. Gretchen WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION Name: Paul Adams City: Los Angeles County: Los Angeles State: California Birthplace: New York;United States of America Birth Date: 22 Mar 1887 Race: Caucasian Roll: 1530907 DraftBoard: 10 ORIGINAL QUESTION: From: "SUE ADAMS" Subject: genealogy focus I want to work on my genealogy and am not sure where to start. I have several generations of ancestors listed on both my husband's side and mine, but not much documentation. Do I start on the "tail end" and push back farther or (starting with the line I'm most interested in) begin at the most recent and verify all information? If verifying, how many and what type of resources are sufficient? It seems overwhelming. We also have a major brick wall on my husband's side. His grandfather was Paul Adams, junior. He said he was a Romanian gypsy king from New York. He gave his birth date as March 22, 1886, but that conflicts with the marriage certificate. He married in 1915 in Utah, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. We have some news clippings from various newspapers (no newspaper names, or dates) as he walked across America in 1912 on a dare/bet with the Washington Post paper. Family lore said he won the bet. He did not tell his wife much about his family, including his mother's maiden name. His mother was a midwife. I have a copy of both the marriage application and certificate, his death certificate, copies of the news clippings. Neither the marriage documents nor the death certificate give any information on his family. Comments written during his walk across America mention brothers who are Eagles, that he knew 4 languages and "could sing and dance quite handily." He sounds very colo! rful. I've checked some birth records in New York, some census records, but want to attack the problem more methodically. Any suggestions on specific New York sources, places for information on gypsies, or other hints would be greatly appreciated.