[Palaab]

Ok, looking for some help again. I finally got my mother's original birth certificate today and discovered I've been looking for the wrong George all along. It IS George I. Allen and his wife's name was Gwendolyn Steeves. He was born in East Boston, MA and she was born in Moncton, N.B. I have just started trying to follow this couple, and have found a few others looking for them also, (they evidently had several children.) My mother is listed as the third child. George I. Allen is listed as a taxi driver and Gwendolyn is listed as a housewife. Again, my mother was born in 1934 and George is listed as 24 and Gwendolyn is listed as 25. If anyone can help me find anything about them, that would be great, as I've been researching the other George D. Allen for 22 years now! I can't find anything on this George I. Allen. There are no responses to the postings on Ancestry.com regarding them, and they are from 1999 and 2000. I'm going to respond to them and hopefully hear something. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please let me know.

[Born1944]

Originally Posted by Palaab

I was thinking... If you got a chance, could you do the indexed search in the 1900 census for Allens living in Michigan and Maine just to have an idea of which counties there were some, and possibly Beale or Beal in Massachusetts? George would have been 16 and Vesta would have been 9 at that time. I have tried searching the 1900 one, but I think that would take years to go county by county...LOL I did email the Burbank Library for a copy of the obituary for Leo. If there was anyone still living at the time, I was thinking I could possibly contact them for info. I think anyone that would be negatively affected by me contacting them, by now, would be dead. I was thinking, a living person might actually be more help, since they might know the medical history better than the chances of me finding anything on paper. I read somewhere that you could only request death certificates from before 1948, but my friend, who works at a town hall, said every state is different, but it seems that it would be a lot of requesting to get each death certificate to find out the medical history. I still don't know much of what I'm doing!

Were you ever able to get an obituary for Leo from Burbank? If not, I may be able to find it for you as I live in the area.

Tina

[Palaab]

No, they were not able to find an obit for Leo. I did find living relatives and got quite a bit of info from them only to end up discovering that after all these years, I've been following the wrong George Allen. Leo's father was George D. Allen. I finally got my mother's pre-adoption birth certificate and her birth father's name was George I. Allen and his wife's name was Gwendolyn Steeves. I have had to start all over again and cannot find anything on either one of these two except they had another child in MA in 1944 that they put up for adoption also. Thank you for the offer, though, that was very nice of you.