Re: [GEN-NORDIC] Re: Digitalarkivet 1900 census search problem

Stein R wrote:
>
> Robert Heiling <robheil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:43A737BB.3C9E0870
> @comcast.net:<SNIP>
>
> > Don't you have to check surname boxes at this point?
>
> Only if you search for the whole country.
>
> If you pick a fylke (province/state) and then pick a
> specific municipality to search, you have more choices
> for how to search - including two versions of "starts
> with"/"børjar på" - one that is a plain wildcard search
> (tores equal tores*), one which gives you a list of
> alternatives that match and then you check surname boxes.

I may have seen those surnamne checkboxes quite a few months ago when I
last used the website for a different research, but not on this
go-around. Although we had been told that he was married in Oslo in
1919, I couldn't assume that he was born there and all my searches were
nationwide, so I never saw the boxes. I had searched the normal
variations on T(h)or(e)s(e/o)n manually, not knowing about the
abbreviation quirk.

> For some reason the plain wildcard search only seems to
> be available when you zoom in on some province and munici-
> pality.
>
> >> and Fornavn (first name) "Er lik" (Equals) Otto
> >> will find him.
> >>
> >> You will also find it with
> >> Etternavn "Børjar på" Tores and
> >> Fødd år "er lik" 1896
> >
> > Yes. It works once the box has been checked for Tores(.)
> > So the trick would be to check the boxes for Toresen, Tores,
> > Toreson, and a few more variations when first looking nationwide
> > for the fellow.
>
> When looking nationwide - yep.

My thanks again to you and the others who have helped me with this
census search. It might be a good idea for me to present our research
puzzle at this point in case you all might have some suggestions that we
have overlooked. A group of us in alt.genealogy is currently attempting
to locate the grandfather and possible descendants for a lady in
Denmark. Here's what we know so far.

Otto Sigurd Thoresen was born 5 Nov 1896 in Oslo, Father: Fredrik
Thoresen (Source: Letter from the church). He married Isabella Larsen
(born 1899) in Oslo in 1919 and a son was born 2 Mar 1920. Family legend
has it that he emmigrated to the US in 1921-2 and Isabella always
remained in Norway.

An Ellis Island passenger manifest dated 19 Nov 1923 shows him and a
traveling companion named Rarous Thoresen, age 30. However, their
entries are lined out and we are interpreting that to mean that they
were booked for the trip, but were not on board.

A second Ellis Island manifest dated 21 Jul 1924 shows him and a
traveling companion named Bjarne A. Hansen, age 29. They are both marked
as "admitted". There is misc info like intended destination on both of
these manifests that I haven't included here.

Intensive searching of the 1930 US census has not located him and he is
not found in the SSDI (death index). The resources for Canada for that
timeframe are limited. A key question would be: Did he return to Norway?
The family doesn't seem to know about it if he did. However, the
grandchildren did receive presents over the years from somewhere which
could possibly have been US or Canada.

That's the puzzle. All tips appreciated.

Bob
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