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antoniosz

Oct 18 2006, 02:29 AM

I am talking about the man that started the company in USA

Here are some interesting documents. The pictures are big and open slowwwwly.
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1. Naturalization papers 1877

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2. Census 1870. See line 11 Note the size of estate. $20,000 Real estate, $30,000 personal estate

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3.Passenger list of the ship Africa which arrived to NY on Sep. 1, 1859 from Liverpool England. See line 2.

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Gerry

Oct 18 2006, 04:02 AM

Wow. Thank you for that Antonios. Those are impressive documents. I guess you also dabble in Genealogical research...

Regards,

Gerry

Nancy

Oct 22 2006, 11:24 PM

Nice handwriting on the census and passenger list. Imagine what handwriting on such documents would look like today!

antoniosz

Dec 11 2006, 01:44 AM

QUOTE(Nancy @ Oct 22 2006, 07:24 PM)

Nice handwriting on the census and passenger list. Imagine what handwriting on such documents would look like today!

Well actually some of the old documents have terrible handwriting also.
But, yes this is has style

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