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O/T Found some old family documents.

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Rollie NE PA

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I found some old documents recently while searching thru the attic. My Grandparents bought this place in 1900. I have lived here since 1988 when I bought it from my Aunt. My Aunt and Uncle lived here and neither one of them had ever married.

The Mine Workers Charter was granted to two of my uncles on July of 1912. I verified this thru the United Mine Workers Headquarters.

My Grandfather became a us citizen in 1888. He and his wife were from Austria. This is all I know about them. I wish I would have asked questions of my dad and aunts and uncles while they were alive.

Don't be like me, ask questions about your ancesters while you have a chance.
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Nice set of documents. We must thank the union movement for making the human life more important than the mules that brought out the coal. gobble
 
I have the same problem. I am trying to do a bio on my uncle Vincent who died in France WW2. I never asked questions about him while my folks were alive.
 
I couldn't agree more; ask while you can. I would have had an uncle except he was killed in a logging accident at the age of 14 in 1922. I had aunts and uncles who could have told me about him. My dad was only four when George died. Another thing, ask older area residents. A man who displayed at Buckley at the Old Engine Show lived in the area all his life. He might have known my grandpa. That guy is gone too.

Larry
 
tall kid's grandfather (greenfield hows that for a farmer name) passed 2 or 3 years before i knew tall kid's mom.
he bought 1 new tractor in his life a super m ih
i tried to find out what ever happened to it but none of his brothers or family fiends knew where it got to.
i never had any connection with him finding his tractor would have been one.
 
Rollie, I have always experienced a strong anti-union sentiment on this website. My comments below are meant to be humor.The gentleman in the photos and many like him paved the way for what we have today and often were met with extreme resistance when trying to organize these Charters.. I am not"proud to be union" but instead I am thankful to be union.Those who did not work in organized mines wished they did in most coal regions.All who labor today wether union or not should be proud of the sacrifices these early workers made. Most union discussions here go bad quickly and it is good to see this one did not.[so far anyhow-and it wasn't about that really]]. You need to bring everything down from the attic and see what else is up there.
Thank you for posting these pictues.
 
No one in my family really knows the family history. There are people in Ohio and Michigan (I'm originally from Pennsylvania) with the same last name but who were supposedly not related. I met one of the Michiganders about 10 years ago who said that the family started out on the British isles, moved to PA, there was a squabble, so two of the brothers moved on to Ohio, then one on to Michigan.

He wasn't as tall as me, but some resemblance. When I met his wife, she said she should have known I was the one he was telling her about, because I look just like some of his uncles.

Dad said he remembers one of his aunts talking, when he was little, about someone in the family moving west to avoid prosecution, so I figure the we're just off two branches of the same tree, and going with the story I got from the Michigander.
 
There were 5 other kids in my high school senior class with the last name of Evans and I wasn't related to any of them. Of the 4 uncles on my fathers side, non of them had any sons. It was left up to me and my brother to carry on the family name, but I had two girls and my brother did not have any children. The name ends with me. I did get my daughter to name her son Evan, at least that close.
 
Rollie, I second that suggestion about asking questions. When I was in elementary school, one of our assignments was to trace our family tree back as far as possible. My grandparents on my Dad's side were able to tell me very little about the family except that they came from England. I don't think they ever asked many questions either.
 
Interesting documents.

I didn't realize that states once issued naturalization papers. Googled a bit and discovered that prior to 1906, any "court of record" (municipal, county, state or federal) could grant citizenship. How things have changed!

Is the UMWA "charter" basically a union membership? I've never heard the term in that context. Or did it establish a local?
 
Rollie:

I'm in the same boat brother, don't you just hate being the last dinosaur. When were gone our family lines become extinct.

Doc
 
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