Chasing a Mystery in Philly, and Looking for Puzzle Pieces: Abraham Louis Snader #usa
Eric Ellman
Greetings, My wife's family has only recently learned that my wife's grandfather (Abraham Louis Snader) was briefly married before his marriage to my wife's grandmother. This is a surprise. The first marriage did NOT end in the death of the first wife. What I know: Eric J. Ellman
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Barbara Rice
Philadelphia marriages are available to view on FamilySearch
Use the catalog and search on place, Philadelphia, keyword marriages You can browse through the images and it is easy when you have the year and certificate number. You can do this from home for the Philadelphia records. https://tinyurl.com/y7thu4az Marriages earlier than 1915 are in a different set. I located the divorce record in the 2nd marriage records from 1931 and sent you a private message. Barbara Rice Minneapolis MN Searching Kupferschmidt - Radziechow and Philadelphia Rusonik - Polotsk, Vitebsk Rehfeld>Rayfield - Gollub-Dobrzyn Rohssler - Krakow Zuchovitz - Stolpce, Belarus and Woodbine, NJ
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MARLISE GROSS
Hi Eric! Not all death information is on line. Look on the PA Death Index for information on Lea Fleysher. Then request a copy from the State. https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Death-Indices.aspx
To make it easier, I would just say she is a great aunt of your family. I can't imagine that they check. You can contact the Temple University Special Collections Library for copies of obituaries in the Exponent. I don't know if they are open yet. Jessica M. Lydon, MSLIS, CA
Associate Archivist
Special Collections Research Center
Temple University Libraries
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.4730 Yes, you can find records of divorces in City Hall. I know there is an index on microfilm. I do not know about the actual records. Check with the Register of Wills. https://secureprod.phila.gov/row/ I guess it is possible that the marriage was dissolved due to the depression. It is also possible that they got a divorce because they hated each other. Who knows. What I do know is that is was more common than you think to get a divorce. I have a bunch of them in my tree. Take care, Marlise Ellis Gross Cherry Hill, NJ
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EdrieAnne Broughton
Ms Lydon, "I would just say she is a great aunt of your family. I can't imagine that they check." Sometimes they do. It all depends on the rules for privacy in each state. In Illinois you have to claim direct relationship to the deceased. I believe in California it's the same and in California I had to have copies of my grandmother's DC to get her mother's DC, plus my father's DC. At least they accepted xerox copies. EdrieAnne Broughton, Vacaville, California
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MARLISE GROSS
I understand what you are saying Edrie. I asked for my great great aunt's death certificate from PA by saying that I was her niece, and they sent me the record. I did not have to provide any documentation. It was not a problem for me, but it could be for someone else.
Marlise Ellis Gross Cherry Hill, NJ
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EdrieAnne Broughton
About 10-15 years ago many states started restricting who can ask for official documents. They were worried about stealing identities, though I don't know who would have stolen Great Aunt Fannie's identity since she was born in 1887. When I talked to the clerk in Springfield she coached me into saying that Fannie was my great grandmother. The lady was a sweetheart.
EdrieAnne Broughton
Vacaville, California
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You can find the Death Certificate on Ancestry. Date of Death, Feb 14, not the 17th, back then Montefiore records listed date of funeral...not date of death. Use the name, Leah Fleysker, that's how it's indexed.
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