[Genealib] Need help for patron

[David Walters]

You could look for a WWII drft registration application and a social secrity 
application. David Walters

> We have a mentally-disabled patron who has been calling us for years 
> asking questions about his ancestors (grand-parents and great-grandparents 
> and their siblings, mostly). Because of his disability, he gets his facts 
> confused sometimes, and can't always give us the type of coherent dialog 
> necessary to find out enough information to help him with his search, but 
> it is obviously important to him to know more about his family.
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> Unfortunately, our patron has no other close relatives who could clarify 
> for us the information he is unable to give himself. What information he 
> has was told to him by his father, who has since passed away.
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> Occasionally, he'll have a slightly more "lucid" moment where he manages 
> to convey enough information all-together about one person that we might 
> have a shot at helping him.
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> Unfortunately, because of his disability, the patron is not capable of 
> pursing research on his own, nor does he understand the complexity and 
> necessity of locating records in order to find and confirm the information 
> he seeks.
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> I would desperately like to put together a basic genealogy on this man's 
> father's family for him (again, just back to his great-grandparents), but 
> I need help.
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> I'm writing the list today to see if there might be librarians here with 
> access to records for the following dates and areas:
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> -An index for Kansas City, Missouri deaths around 1980
> -Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas and/or Lincoln and Desha Counties, 
> Arkansas (early 1900s to present).
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> The patron's family is proving elusive in the census (although we did 
> locate his father as a young child in the 1920 census), but the 
> relationships given in that record are not clear, and the names the patron 
> has given us don't match up, exactly, which makes it hard to go farther. I 
> need help clarifying these family relationships, perhaps via obituaries.
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> If anyone feels they might be able to help with this research, please 
> e-mail me off list. I would appreciate any help or suggestions anyone can 
> give.
>
> Sincerely,
> Teresa Dahlgren
> Genealogy & Reference Librarian
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo, Iowa
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