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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.

Me too,

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

SSN number was issued Florida 1956.

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.

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

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/

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?

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.