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REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Thomas » 07 des 2004 13:10:09

Hi, I am an American living and teaching in China. I desperately
need to get some information about marriage and divorce dates on
myself so that I can request a copy of my divore decree from the
states.

When I was in the USA about 6 years ago, I could find out several
family trees that included myself for free. Now, every web site I
find info on me, they want money. I don't object to this but I have
no credit cards. So, it's a problem.

Does anyone know any sites where the info is free? Thanks for any
help any kind soul provides.

Jim

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Jim » 07 des 2004 15:38:34

Let me see if I understand this correctly. You were married and then
divorced, but you have no idea what the dates were? This sounds
somewhat like a person phishing......

J

Thomas wrote:
Hi, I am an American living and teaching in China. I desperately
need to get some information about marriage and divorce dates on
myself so that I can request a copy of my divore decree from the
states.

When I was in the USA about 6 years ago, I could find out several
family trees that included myself for free. Now, every web site I
find info on me, they want money. I don't object to this but I have
no credit cards. So, it's a problem.

Does anyone know any sites where the info is free? Thanks for any
help any kind soul provides.

Jeanne Connell

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Jeanne Connell » 07 des 2004 16:49:57

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:10:09 GMT, Thomas <xinghupsAT@hotmailDOT.com>
wrote:

Hi, I am an American living and teaching in China. I desperately
need to get some information about marriage and divorce dates on
myself so that I can request a copy of my divore decree from the
states.

When I was in the USA about 6 years ago, I could find out several
family trees that included myself for free. Now, every web site I
find info on me, they want money. I don't object to this but I have
no credit cards. So, it's a problem.

Does anyone know any sites where the info is free? Thanks for any
help any kind soul provides.


I don't know of any website that would have info on living persons.
You'll have to write to the places where the marriage and divorces
took place.

Jeanne

Guilin

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Guilin » 07 des 2004 17:46:49

Jim <2seegull@charter1.net> wrote in news:41B5C06A.4010403@charter1.net:

Let me see if I understand this correctly. You were married and then
divorced, but you have no idea what the dates were? This sounds
somewhat like a person phishing......

J

Thomas wrote:
Hi, I am an American living and teaching in China. I desperately
need to get some information about marriage and divorce dates on
myself so that I can request a copy of my divore decree from the
states.

When I was in the USA about 6 years ago, I could find out several
family trees that included myself for free. Now, every web site I
find info on me, they want money. I don't object to this but I have
no credit cards. So, it's a problem.

Does anyone know any sites where the info is free? Thanks for any
help any kind soul provides.


Nope, not phishing. My sister and I did our genealogy from about 1985 to
1992. I am in CHINA and you can only bring so many things with you. No
baggage room four volumes of research materials.

I didn't ask anyone to look it up for me, just where I maybe can find it.

Have you ever been 8,000 miles away from home and needed some info in your
county clerk's office. Just try to understand.

Thomas

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Thomas » 07 des 2004 17:50:31

Nope, not phishing. My sister and I did our genealogy from about 1985
to 1992. I am in CHINA and you can only bring so many things with you.
No baggage room four volumes of research materials.

I didn't ask anyone to look it up for me, just where I maybe can find
it.

Have you ever been 8,000 miles away from home and needed some info in
your county clerk's office. Just try to understand.


Well, I'm sure that using the wrong identity will cause quite a stir. I
apologize. This is only about my 3rd post to a newsgroup

Thomas

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Thomas » 07 des 2004 18:16:30

Jeanne Connell <siobhanabu@rcn.com> wrote in
news:l7kbr0tnfsrithad61mtejuuceuo06r9tr@4ax.com:

I don't know of any website that would have info on living persons.
You'll have to write to the places where the marriage and divorces
took place.

Jeanne

As I said in my reply to Jim, I am 8,000 miles away from my county clerk's
office. I am in CHINA. It takes 2 - 3 months for snail mail to go to USA
and to come this way.

Can you imagine with typical bureaucratic ineptness... "Sir you need to
also provide this and that etc."... ending up with 2 or 3 mail exchanges.
It could take 6 months to a year to get it.

I need to get it for the American Consulate here. They want it asap. I am
just trying to get accurate info b4 mailing them.

I have been to the county clerk's website and left messages asking what do
I need to do as far as info and fees they need (there is no email address
for them, just a "leave us a message" form). No replys, and yes I gave them
my email address in the form field.

I have to have my ex-spouse's date and place of birth, our marriage date,
divorce date and decree.

And yes, this info exists on Ancestery.com. I have seen it 4 or 5 years
ago.

Gjest

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Gjest » 07 des 2004 18:23:09

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:16:30 GMT, Thomas <xinghupsAT@hotmailDOT.com> wrote:

And yes, this info exists on Ancestery.com. I have seen it 4 or 5 years
ago.

Try...

http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm

Dennis K.

Dani

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Dani » 07 des 2004 18:58:18

"Jim" <2seegull@charter1.net> wrote in message
news:41B5C06A.4010403@charter1.net...
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You were married and then
divorced, but you have no idea what the dates were? This sounds
somewhat like a person phishing......

J

Thomas wrote:
Hi, I am an American living and teaching in China. I desperately
need to get some information about marriage and divorce dates on
myself so that I can request a copy of my divore decree from the
states.

When I was in the USA about 6 years ago, I could find out several
family trees that included myself for free. Now, every web site I
find info on me, they want money. I don't object to this but I have
no credit cards. So, it's a problem.

Does anyone know any sites where the info is free? Thanks for any
help any kind soul provides.

Jim, that was my intial reaction, too...

I still don't understand what exactly he's trying to do after reading
through all the subsequent posts, but, if he doesn't have a credit card,
he's screwed anyways, because I've gotten two or three recent death
certificates through the web (and paid a heavy price for them, believe me!)
with a credit card. They won't ship them overseas, so he'll need to give a
US address to mail them too and have that person mail them to him. Either
way it goes, he can't get the information online or for free anymore. It's
getting to where all information will soon have to be paid for. But the
information he specifically wants won't be free at all. That's from
experience. Even the one world tree isn't free.

Good Luck though,
Dani

Dani

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Dani » 07 des 2004 19:01:59

<Dennis K.> wrote in message
news:nmpbr0th9j8e22qgi5bp1ebqij49lg7bf3@4ax.com...
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:16:30 GMT, Thomas <xinghupsAT@hotmailDOT.com
wrote:

And yes, this info exists on Ancestery.com. I have seen it 4 or 5 years
ago.

Try...

http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm

Dennis K.

Hopefully the information is still there and hasn't been pulled off the web.
Many people got mad at Ancestry.com when it came up with the one world tree
b/c they were gonna have to pay for this service. I pulled my own tree, but
after looking at it again, I might put it back up. Thanks for posting that,
Dennis.
Dani

Melissa Warner

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Melissa Warner » 07 des 2004 21:40:01

My understanding of China is that it is still on this planet, and since you
have access to a computer, Thomas, and presumeably a phone, why can't you
ask a family member to look up this information about youself? Or if maybe
they remember your wedding. Or email the county clerks office (try Google).
Or the church where you were married. The lawyer who helped you with your
divorce. Or the American consolate. And so on. It seems to me that trying to
find your marriage and divorce information of someone elses genealogical
research but only online is probably the least efficient way to go about
this.

singhals

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av singhals » 07 des 2004 23:05:05

Thomas wrote:
Jeanne Connell <siobhanabu@rcn.com> wrote in
news:l7kbr0tnfsrithad61mtejuuceuo06r9tr@4ax.com:


I don't know of any website that would have info on living persons.
You'll have to write to the places where the marriage and divorces
took place.

Jeanne


As I said in my reply to Jim, I am 8,000 miles away from my county clerk's
office. I am in CHINA. It takes 2 - 3 months for snail mail to go to USA
and to come this way.


There's this dandy new device the mail services have -- AIR mail. Still
takes about a month, but them's the breaks. (Yeah, I have a LOT of
experience with international mail).


Can you imagine with typical bureaucratic ineptness... "Sir you need to
also provide this and that etc."... ending up with 2 or 3 mail exchanges.
It could take 6 months to a year to get it.

I need to get it for the American Consulate here. They want it asap. I am
just trying to get accurate info b4 mailing them.

Uhhh -- aren't you an American? What's wrong with the info on your
passport application?

Cheryl

Guilin

Re: REQ: Need some help please

Legg inn av Guilin » 08 des 2004 10:11:13

Dennis K. wrote in news:nmpbr0th9j8e22qgi5bp1ebqij49lg7bf3@4ax.com:



Thanks Dennis. I went to the link and from it stumbled upon some info I
needed. I also got an e-mail address of a person who has other info I need.
I have contacted them and they are going to send me the info they have.

Again, Thank you
Thomas

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