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I have been googling everything I can think of relating to Arthur , including local newspapers without any success.

I'm afraid I am not in touch with Edward's family , I do know he had a daughter ,Margaret born in N.J 1929 but that's all I can find on her.

I have a distant relative in Canada who has also been looking for Arthur , his grandmother is Arthur's sister , he can only remember his grandmother saying that Arthur was still alive in 1973 , not a lot to go on really.

jean

Only have the month of his death which is August.

Ah, so it's quite possible Arthur too was a retiree to Florida and was buried somewhere else (and the obituary would likely be somewhere else too).

You're not in touch with Edward's family, who might know, I guess?

Since I'd found tihs site in my searching

http://www.learnwebskills.com/browardcem/

I searched the listings for each cemetery shown there, but no Arthur Good.

Newspaper obituaries for the local papers on line don't go back quite far enough for you. I think you might want to contact the public library and enquire about having them look in newspaper archives on microfilm for an obituary - do you have the exact date of death? That would certainly help a whole lot. An obituary would certainly name spouse/children/grandchildren.

http://www.broward.org/library/
http://www.broward.org/library/researchcorner.htm -- Ask a Librarian service

I can't get this page to load

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flgsbc/

but you can try reading it in google's cache (dated March 10) - copy and paste back together:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:AVO16RE5tUEJ:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flgsbc/+%22broward+county%22+genealogy
&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

You might find something here:

http://browardcounty-publicrecords.com/2009/09/genealogy-research-with-broward-county-public-records/

My problem is I can't find out if he married in Canada or U.S.
His parents and 2 sisters died in Canada, his brother married in New jersey and died also in Florida but was buried in New Jersey.
His brother Edward went to U.S in 1922 .

Jean

Aha, there you are! So he emigrated to the US when he was 50ish or in his early 50s. (It could have taken some time to regularize status and be entitled to a SS number.)

I wonder whether his wife, if he had one at the time, would have received a SS number at the same time. And of course whether he had children who emigrated with him -- or he with them maybe.

Immigration rules were very different a half-century ago so it's hard to say how he would have qualified. We Canucks all have "American cousins" -- one batch of my mum's first cousins all moved south of the border as young adults in the 50s, to Michigan and California, while their parents stayed behind on the farm in southern Ontario until they died. It was a whole lot easier and more informal in that day.

Me too,

I have his birth certificate , he was born 7th May 1903.

SSN number was issued Florida 1956.

jean

I'm still confused about the 1911 census

1911 Census of Canada
about Arthur Good
Name: Arthur Good
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Age: 18
Birth Date: May 1903

According to mgnv he was working, which an 8-yr-old wouldn't likely have been doing. It's a bit of a rat's nest. The names match the family that immigrated in 1911, but the rest of the info just doesn't.

JaneyCanuck,

Thank you I will get onto right now.
jean

Thanks for the info on the website i will take a look

If you go to

http://www.whitepages.com

and search for surname Good in Fort Lauderdale, you'll find 18 listings.

You could always send out a form letter enquiring about any connection with Arthur Good!


Btw, there are US snowbirds as well -- people who lived in the orthern states who move to Florida when they retire -- and he might very well have been one of them. I'd guess there's a very good chance he was. So he might have been anywhere else when he first emigrated to the US, and any kids he had would likely be there, wherever that was, rather than in Florida, assuming he didn't move to Florida from Canada late in life without his kids.

The Social Security death record Portland Rose gave shows that the SS number was issued in Florida but apparently doesn't say what year it was issued. That's a huge drag of a missing bit of info.

If he had a SS number he wasn't likely just a "snowbird" -- a Canadian retiree who spent winters in Florida. (Cdns can spend up to 6 months a year in the US as visitors, i.e. without having to get immigration status, and also without losing their benefits in Canada, like health insurance.) He would have had to have some sort of permanent status in the US, and that means he could have emigrated there from Canada any time after 1911!

Is it possible to check that record at Ancestry further to make sure there is no info about when the Social Security number was issued? I wonder whether the number itself would give a clue - presumably they're issued in numerical order, so it might be possible to determine the year from the number. Can that index at Ancestry be searched by number, to find nearby numbers and when they were issued? One problem might be that he could have been issued the number when he was, say, 60, while most people in the US would be issued them when they were children or teenagers, so those people would mostly still be living ...

I think that number might be your very best clue to when he moved to the US, if it can be associated with a year of issue.

Hi ,
I am still looking for Arthur Good.
The death I found is most certainly him , it was verified by distant relative , but we still have no idea where he was between 1911 in Canada and his death in Florida .
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look for him .
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you
jean

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I think that's what he must have done , Lucky old him , if he did.

Love the name "Snowbird "

Jean

A lot of Canadians move down to Florida when they retire to get away from the snow and the cold. We call them "Snowbirds". Perhaps that's what Arthur did?

Still looking for Arthur Good in U.S.A.

n

HiJaneyCanuck,
Thank you for replying,
I have Edward on the 1930 census living with his wife Evelyn nee Applegate and their young daughter Margaret b. 1929, but I know they 3 children possibly after 1928 as that is when they married, they are living in Seabright, Monmouth New Jersey, but no sign of Arthur, unfortunatley I too don't have access to U.S. records,
regards
jean

Do you know where in the US Edward first settled? Have you looked for him in the 1930 US census?

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=6224

It would help if you knew his middle initial and his wife's name.

Arthur might then be in the same vicinity. And of course you could also search for him independently, by date and place of birth.

Sorry I don't have US info access at Ancestry, but someone might be able to try.

n

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