Hi All! I have added several profiles to my tree but have hit a bump in the road and was hoping for some help so I can keep going.
Having issues with my paternal great-grandmother - my father's mother's mother. David Dale Barna > Rosemary Dale > her mother.
Everything I know indicates that my grandmother (Rosemary Dale) was born in Terre Haute to Franklin Kinzy Dale and Aurelia Ruth Lloyd (or could be Ruth Aurelia Lloyd, and I have seen Aurelia also spelled Arrelia). The Dale family moved to the Detroit area at some point, which is where Rosemary met my grandfather, Stephen Barna. The wrinkle comes that my grandparents marriage license lists Ruth GALLAGHER as Rosemary's mother, and I am seeing the Gallagher name pop up some more. The birth certificate I believe to be Rosemary's lists Ruth Lloyd as her mother (albeit misspelled as Loyde). Rosemary was not the last of the children in her family - she had something like 9 or 10 siblings, and when Ruth passed her last name was still Dale, so she didn't remarry. I would like to get to the bottom of this before throwing more profiles into my tree. Any thoughts?
[Also, I have hit a dead end with my paternal great-grandparents - Stephen Barna's parents. I can find no information other than the census records, and death certificates for both that don't have any real, actionable information. All I know is that they were both born in Hungary and immigrated in the early 1900s, lived in Cleveland for a bit and then moved to Detroit. I have my great-grandfather's birthdate, my great-grandmother's approximate year of birth and that's it. I assume both of their names have been anglicized. I have found no marriage record in the state of Ohio under their names as I know them, despite Cleveland being the reported place of birth of my great-uncle and great-aunt. (I have ordered his birth certificate but haven't received it yet. The state of Ohio has no birth certificate on record for my great-aunt, but I assume that she was delivered by a amid-wife and the birth never recorded.) My great-grandfather was not religious, but my great-grandmother was, but the Archdiocese of Cleveland has no marriage or baptismal records for any of them. Neither were naturalized or received Social Security numbers so my inquiries with the USCIS and SSA have been fruitless. I haven't been able to locate either of their immigration details under their known names. My dad just did a yDNA and mtDNA test, so my best hope may be to see who the relatives are in Hungary and work back that way, but thought I would see if anyone else has any suggestions as to where to look in the meantime. I would love to be able to solve the mystery and add more to the tree in that direction as well! Thanks!]