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This needs more work, but adding to the fun: His jacket. This looks late 1940s early 1950s to me, has a short "Ike" feel to it. Not yet greaser style; not yet denim. See the greaser look in the "Reb …

I cannot answer the question about your grandfather, but my father was honorably discharged twice during World War II. His circumstance was different: He enlisted (had been drafted), and shortly ha …

The four numbers you see to the right on the 1910 US census are annotations made during the post-enumeration processing. The codes were placed on the census to support and speed up the keypunch proces …

(1) Justin finds few 20th century vital records, even when he uses otherwise reliable data to search in well known content-provider databases like familysearch.org or ancestry.com. When you use othe …

Clearly we need to know something about Hungarian adoption laws (which may supersede or be subservient to privacy laws). Working from the known to the unknown, and as @Luke may have been alluding to …

Charles H. Dillon (1889-1967) worked in different capacities for Western Union in Dallas, Texas. In the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote articles about the telegraph for the Texas Almanac and other publicati …

As I alluded to in an earlier comment to the question, sometimes missing information is itself information. What were the practices of the day? There were probably medical examiners instructions …

The image is actually from a set of muster rolls, for which one part of this batch of returns is subtitled, "Discharged." The graphic below is from the same image page listed above, it shows the subhe …

Oh, those missing-in-action/elusive ancestors. I have a great grandfather who is elusive. He lived just earlier, though. This case is different. Even though your John Albert Draper has common names (g …

From the altered birth record, you probably know the father-in-law's date of birth and location. Likewise, I assume you know the date and location at which the adoption took place. Those two dates a …