Help with a distant cousin

Question

I recently stumbled across a distant cousin and I'm having a really difficult time finding records for his parents.

He should be Notable as the first professional Black carillonist but he doesn't have a Wikipedia page.

According to his twin sister, their paternal grandparents were from Loiza, Puerto Rico, and their maternal grandparents the USA and St Kitts and Nevis.

Can anyone help me connect this cousin to the world tree and find out how we are connected?

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It seems the 1940 US census and the 1950 US census cannot agree if he is nephew or grandson to the head of the household (same in both cases).

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Yup, this is one of the issues I was having a problem with, I was hoping to find information on his mother to figure out if Sarah was his aunt or grandmother.

Answer 1

Hi Lynnette, there is a newspaper clipping on Ancestry's Newspapers that seems relevant. I don't have that subscription. The only thing I can see is that Dionecio Lind married Claudia Gilliam on 30 Aug 1953, and his mother is listed as Minnie Douglas. The clipping is from the U.S. Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current. Maybe someone else can see the whole article for you. Source citation: The New York Age; Publication Date: 29/ Aug/ 1953; Publication Place: New York, New York, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/40478106/?article=d0ce31f2-abba-4af7-8b41-367f86da4365&focus=0.06968872,0.061524946,0.48755282,0.35761878&xid=3398

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Thank you, I can't read it but hopefully, someone with a subscription can help add to his profile.

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FamilySearch has Minnie and Sarah as sisters.  (No documentation to support that, though.)

In my opinion, if Sarah was born - per the census - in 1878, that would make her more of an age to be Minnie's mother than her sister.

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I found a free clipping: https://www.newspapers.com/image/40478106/?clipping_id=112254599&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQwNDc4MTA2LCJpYXQiOjE2NjcxMzYwODIsImV4cCI6MTY2NzIyMjQ4Mn0.KSZp1h20A0y7BFbMXZJ1W_5lmO8O1qO2CF_2ayvTyjM

(Edited to replace tinyurl with original URL.)

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New comment to ensure it is seen.

Just now found immigration document for Sarah E Douglas, stating person in the US was DAUGHTER Minnie Douglas.  Ship name: Nerissa.  Arrival Date: 22 May 1937.

Aboard that same ship were 6-year-old twins Deonecio Lind and Gloria Lind.

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Thank you so much, I'll look in the St. Kitts records to see if I can find Sarah.

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Lynnette, the New York Times published an article on Dionisio Lind when he died in 2018. Youprobably have this already, but just in case. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/obituaries/dionisio-lind-dead.html

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Francesca, please do not use url shortening sites.  (I seem to recall such were disallowed some while ago.)

edited to add ---

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Adding_Links#Links_to_Other_Websites

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Sorry, Melanie. I wasn't aware of this. I'll see if I can retrace the original. It was exceedingly long.

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Long urls can be "shortened" for display by highlighting words in your post/comment such as the New York Times published an article blah blah, then clicking the chain icon and adding the url there.

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Also travelling with Sarah (maiden surname Fraser / Frasier) was her niece Eugelia Fraser (spelling according to the passenger list).  Related person in the Virgin Islands was Margaret Fraser (spelling as above) - niece to Sarah, sister to Eugelia.  Related person(s) at destination - Sarah's was noted above as Minnie Douglas; Eugelia's was noted as Ellen Douglas, cousin, both of 74 E 99th Street NYC.
It appears Sarah had departed NY for the Virgin Islands in December 1936.

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Thank you! 

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Oh this is interesting, there's a Frazer in one of my trees as a grandmother to a possible 2x great grandfather. I'm not at my computer anymore so I'll be looking at this look more closely later. Thank you!

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It can take some fiddling around with the images on FamilySearch, but it's all there.  
 

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I found Margaret and Eugelia but I still haven't been able to place Sarah in their father's family, I know birth years weren't exact but I want to be sure I have the right person before I merge.

Answer 2

Dionicio Antonio and his twin sister Gloria Eloise were both baptized at St. Martin's on 23 September 1931.

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/31044544?h=ff9831

Mother: Minnie Douglas Lind

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Minnie's marriage record (1924) names her spouse as Salvatore Lopes. (FamilySearch names him as Dionisio Lind Lopez. Same birth place, same birth year.)
It also names different parents for the groom than the FS profile has.

It's possible she was married twice, in just a few years, but the Lopes(z) last name is kind of indicating otherwise.

Answer 3

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/fanchart/GNGZ-M9X

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This is actually me working on the tree on FamilySearch.

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Good to know.