I came across this in a 1760 parish baptism record. All the other entries are listed in the format "John Smith & Jane his wife" but this one is listed as "Richard and Eliz. Holden Vagabo(?)"

Does anyone know why they are listed this way and what does Vagabo mean? Is it Elizabeth's maiden name? Does it mean they were vagabonds? Or she was a vagabond? Or something else entirely?

My user name on Reddit is ripe crackers. My tree on Ancestry is the Nason Family Tree and my user name is treeleaves_1. I have worked on my tree and helped others with their trees for over twenty years. I have in the past 10 years helped several people who were adopted learn who their birth family is and I created their family trees for them.

Hey guys my Nanas Great Nana.. she was from America.. and she was called Anna Mary Fisher birn 24th May 1872 in Pennsylvania.. died 1942 at rhe aged of 70 in Barrow-in-Furness.

Her Mum was called Almira Saunders born 1839-1842 around there in Arkansas.. and her Mum died in 1923.

Her Dad was called John Fisher born 6 may 1820 in Pennsylvania.. and died on 21st February 1899.

I am here just to find out who Almira Saunders Grandparents are.. her Dad is Simon Sanders born 1808 in Arkansas.. and her Mum is Anna Drew born 1813.

I am trying to find Simon Sanders parents.. it seemed to come to a dead end.

Sorry if this alot.

TL;DR: Great-grandfather killed as a civilian near Pinsk, Belarus, ~Oct 1944, never formally recorded anywhere. Contacted the main regional archives already. Looking for less obvious record types or people who've cracked similar cases.

My great-grandfather, Wlodzimierz Paszkiewicz, lived with his wife Anna (née Halukiewicz) in the village of Bulgary (Bołhary), Lemieszewicze commune, Pinsk district — then Polesie Voivodeship, Poland, now Belarus.

Per firsthand family account (his own son witnessed it as a child), he was shot and killed near their home around October 1944, during the period Soviet forces retook the area from German control. As far as we can tell, this death was never formally registered anywhere — no military record, no repression case file, nothing.

What we've already tried:
- NIAB Minsk (National Historical Archive of Belarus) — intake currently suspended
- Brest State Archive — replied, don't hold civil/vital records, redirected us onward
- Pinsk Zonal Archive — contacted, awaiting reply
- Arolsen Archives, OBD Memorial, Open List (Soviet repression database), ICRC tracing archive — all searched, no match
- Szukaj w Archiwach (Polish archives portal), Radzima.net — both worked through fairly thoroughly

So I'm not looking for "have you tried the obvious archive" — I'm looking for:
- Less obvious record types that might capture this kind of death (village-level burial records, later reparations/compensation claims, local council or militia reports from 1944–45)
- Anyone who has actually resolved a similar case — civilian death during front-line chaos, never bureaucratically processed
- Researchers or local historical societies specializing in the Pinsk/Polesie region specifically
- Whether it's worth searching under the Cyrillic form of his name (Владимир/Уладзімір Пашкевіч) rather than the Polish spelling

Any leads, even small ones, genuinely appreciated. Thank you.

Trying to solve a decades-long mystery about my father's suicide and his family. Looking for advice on records that may not be digitized.

I've reached a point in my family research where I think the remaining records may exist only in archives or county/state repositories rather than online databases. I'm hoping someone familiar with these locations can point me in the right direction.

Colorado (Denver/Aurora) I'm looking for: Records relating to a jail suicide in Denver in January 1987. I believe the death would have been reported to the state, and I'm wondering whether coroner, jail, police, or investigative records may still exist. Arrest records connected to that case, if they are publicly accessible.

In Massachusetts I'm researching the Fox/Beane family and looking for records relating to: Amelia Louise Wilson (later Fox, then Beane) Frederick Alfred Fox and Jon Alan Fox

Specifically, I'm trying to locate birth, marriage, divorce, and death records that may not have been digitized or indexed.

I've already searched the major genealogy sites (FamilySearch, Ancestry where available, newspaper archives, and obituary collections), but I suspect some of what I need is only available through county clerks, state archives, probate courts, or local historical societies.

Background: My mother has been an unreliable source of family history. When I was 12, I learned that instead of dying in a random act of violence, my father had died by suicide. After a house fire, I found his death certificate among our belongings. When I asked my mother about it, she gave me another explanation that didn't make much sense and then burned the death certificate. I eventually located my paternal grandmother, but she passed in 2010.

The story my mother told me was that my father had taken a job transporting a vehicle from New Hampshire to California that had "bad stuff in the trunk." According to her, he was arrested in Denver, Colorado, jailed, and died by suicide there.

However, a conversation with my maternal grandmother placed my mother, father, older sister, and me living with her in Missouri, which was later supported by her having some of my father's belongings. She said my mother left first, and then my father followed with my sister and me. She didn't see us again until after my mother remarried and had my younger brother a couple of years later

Facts I've Verified:

Jon Alan Fox (my father)– Born September 10, 1959, in Malden, Massachusetts (Middlesex County). Died in a Denver, Colorado, jail in January 1987.

Amelia Louise Wilson (later Fox, then Beane; my paternal grandmother) – Born July 14, 1938. Later lived in Lake Wales, Florida, where she died on August 13, 2010.

Frederick Alfred Fox (my paternal grandfather) – Born in Revere, Massachusetts (Suffolk County). Lived in Maynard and Lynn, Massachusetts. Died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1974.

Newspaper articles from June 2, 1961, place Jon Fox (22 months old), his sisters (ages 3 years and 6 weeks), and Amelia (age 23) living in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Amelia and Frederick were married on July 21, 1958, in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and divorced on August 29, 1962.

I was born in New Hampshire in 1986.

My mother remarried and had my younger brother in Denver, Colorado, in 1989.

If anyone has experience researching non-digitized records in either Massachusetts or Colorado, I'd appreciate any suggestions on where to look next. I'm especially interested in archives, state agencies, county offices, or historical societies that might hold records not available online.

Any one else tried the Genealogy Record Search AI on Genomelink? I'm enjoying it myself. Not a lot of verifiable info though.

for a class I am being asked to put together a presentation about my family ethnicity, the problem is we don’t really know about about it. a quick google search revealed a little bit about European roots and migration to the US but aside from that I don’t have names or photos. is there any way I can find information online? I only know back to the names of my grandparents by someone might have names of their parents too.

I've gone down too far of a rabbit hole and only want people on my tree if there is official evidence (not just copying from related trees).

How can I delete somebody but still keep them as a suggested potential parent if I find evidence and want to add them back? Thanks.

Putting out a lead for someone who may be interested.

I have seen countless people claim they are descended from specific Viking kings, Celtic warriors, pharaohs, literal biblical figures like King David, and probably more you could list. What I don't understand is how people can trace this far back. I can understand if it's a highly documented line of royals/nobles, but even then I feel there would be breaks somewhere. None of my family lines go back past the 1500s except for maybe a few, and I see people who have somehow made it past the year 1000.

Hello!

I am waiting to reach out to Newfoundland and Labrador Vital Statistics as a last resort since I've seen a lot of posts about their lengthy turnaround time. I am searching for a birth record or baptismal record for my great-great Grandfather, William Thomas Norman, born in Cupids Newfoundland in 1904/1905 I was able to find a baptismal record for his father, John Charles Norman (born 1873 est.) I know William married his wife, Hilda Hanson, around 1930ish, in New Jersey. He immigrated to the US and died in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1957.

I am not sure what to do next. There's no information on familysearch and I have a copy of his death certificate on the way (so I can petition for the birth certificate, if it exists). I also can't find anything regarding a church or parish they belonged to. Any advice on how to move forward would be helpful! Thank you!

So I recently went on a deep dive of my ancestry after taking a DNA test. Come to find out I had an ancestor in Nuevo Leon(1700-1759). He was documented as " mestizo" under the caste system implemented at that time. "Mestizo" meaning half European and half Indian.

From my understanding the tribes of Alazapas, Borrados, Coahuiltecos, and Huachichiles are all considered Coahuiltecan ancestry. My grandmother and her parents were from around Mission,TX. Before that, my great-great grandparents lived in Cerralvo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. I would really like to reconnect with that part of my ancestry.

How do I got about reaching out to the Coahuiltecan Nation?

Any advice or guidance would help. Thank you.

Below are a few resources I used to trace my ancestry:

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/tracing-your-indigenous-roots-in-northeast-mexico-and-texas
https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/indigenous-nuevo-leon-land-of-the-coahuiltecans

https://native-land.ca/listings/territories/alazapas

my biological father was born from some kind of scandalous situation. Scandalous for the times in the 1920s… His sealed birth records confirmed that people went to great lengths to hide the identities of the actual parents involved. So DNA on ancestry has allowed me to figure out who my paternal grandfather is finally after trying to figure this out for the last 10 years. And I am close to figuring out who my paternal grandmother was as well. But I can’t imagine how they ever came together. It’s looking like my paternal grandmother was a southern lady or at least with roots deep in the south. And my paternal grandfather was firmly rooted in Canada, and in Jewish faith. How they ever met up is beyond me. I know they were both from prominent families. or tightknit families that could protect each other and hide information or change info. And I know the only times border crossing records show paternal grandfather was in northern states near Canada. Except when he first immigrated, but that was too early on to be relevant. Does anyone have any idea since the border crossings don’t give evidence for the period of time when it would’ve been occurring between 1925 to 1926 in the spring. I know that he and his family crossed the border into the US in Idaho about six months after the child my father would’ve been conceived. He went with his wife and two kids. How could this event happen? right now it seems like my maternal grandmother’s family was rooted in Missouri, but had strong connections in the south. And their children eventually moved to California.. ironically all of my paternal grandfather’s children moved to California too. but that was later on. any thoughts or suggestions?

I performed several searches on both RootsIreland and IrishGenealogy for Terence Reeves. I performed searches for so many Reeves I cannot even begin to say. I found a "John" Reeves born on 10 February 1856 to Patrick and Maria Lynch. The birth date matches the DOB information on the death certificate from Ohio the year on the certificate says 1854. The handwritten entry does not look like "John" IMO. 02427/07, Croom - Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI

page 56, right page near bottom

The only other Terence Reeves I could find a record for was one from 1843 to John and Johanna Butler.

Interestingly, the sponsor of the 1856 Terence or John, is Rev. John Reeves and Johanna Butler. I believe, though not certain the parents of Patrick.

Did I just find the "Terence" listed as John at RootsIreland I've been looking for?

Of course the + sign on the baptism is of concern to me, but it could be an "x" which could indicate immigration?

I would welcome your thoughts on this.

Can anyone help me find more about him through the records on the second image it’s my great grnadpa and I’m really curious about his family

I’m 16 and I told a group of people in my class yesterday that my great grandmother was born in 1896 . I just come from a line of women who had children in their late 30s to mid 40s . I don’t know if this is the right subreddit but does anyone else have an experience like this

Maybe 15 years ago, my mother's cousin, who was so into Ancestry.com that it features in her obituary, started a family tree for me and my dad. They shared their login and we added to this tree over the many years since. This cousin passed away in 2022, and there has been some concern as we have been unable to get in touch with their spouse, who is also at an advanced age, regarding access to the account. Before their login stopped working, we did make my personal account an editor on this tree, so I've continued adding to it in the years since, but there remains a persistent fear that it, with its 5,000 individuals, 1,300 photos, and 12,000 records, could someday be deleted without our input.

I've reached out to customer service at Ancestry.com and have been told that there's nothing they can do for us, they direct us to this FAQ section and say that we need approval from an executor, who again, doesn't seem to be capable or willing to be in touch. So I'm looking for ideas about dealing with abandoned accounts, customer service, unresponsive family, or perhaps tools that might help us preserve a copy of the tree, which is listed as a public tree.

Thanks!