Hello,
I don't even know where to begin! This may be repetitive to some of you, I
posted this quite some time ago, but now I'm getting desperate, LOL! This is
going to be long!
I have been researching my husband's family & I have quite an interesting
mystery on my hands!
His grandmother, Mary Rose Tomac b. 5-18-1914, some where along the lines
before she passed away (APPARENTLY) found information (what or where, I don't
know) that she was adopted. The STORY is that she was born an Aho. It is
believed that she was living in a lumberjack camp (?) with her parents. That
part is supposedly a memory of hers so I would imagine it could be with
either set of parents & possibly some other type of camp.
There are 2 versions, one that her mother died giving birth & the other that
her mother died while Mary was very young.
She also came in to some info that she may have actually been born in 1912.
The other part of the story was that she was ADOPTED in a bar. Possibly won
in a poker game.
I sure wish I knew where this info came from! Nobody seems to know!
My mother in law has mentioned to me Elmer Aho. She seems to think this may
have been a brother. I have no clue!
Anyway, I have no "real" records of her. Nobody knows where she was married
so I have been unsuccessful in getting a marriage certificate in hopes of
getting her parents' names. Nobody even knows the names of the parents who
raised her. There is no for sure place that she was born. I have an address
for her in a bible living in Houghton, MI.
I requested a birth certificate from the State of Michigan. So far I have no
way to verify if the one I received back is even hers. The name is right,
Mary Tomac, but the date is off. It lists her DOB as 6-12-1912. One reason
why I believe it could actually be hers is because her mother is listed as
Rose Stimac & her father as Dan Tomac. Rose was Mary's middle name. There
is a date stamp at the top of 7-10-1912. A lady in the clerk's office told
me that if she was adopted it would have had to have been at birth because of
that date stamp.
I have kind of let the whole adoption theory go because I have no solid
proof. However, tonight Aho was thrown back in my face! I received some
extensive family research on Mary's second husband's side. There is a note
on there that he married Mary Aho
? Now that was very strange to me because as far as I know
everything says Tomac! I just received that info tonight & will do
everything I can to contact this researcher ASAP. So now I am back on the
adoption suspicion.
So far I have been unsuccessful at getting her SS-5 form.
I did write away to the Adoption Registry in Michigan & they show no matching
records. If the whole bar story is true, that may be why.
In these stories I have heard of her, Iron Co. has been mentioned as well.
Not exactly sure where.
I am so confused & am hoping to make a connection with someone, anyone!!!!!!!
If anyone is connected to these families, of course I would LOVE to hear
from you. Or, if anyone could possibly point me in the right direction, I
would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
Lili (Baffrey) Felgar
Searching for: Felgar (Felger), Tomac and Filkin(s)
Also: Day, Gibson, Heelman (sp) and Baffrey