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US Lookup Requests / Re: William & Catherine Sullivan (nee O'Shea) of Greenwich Village
« on: Today at 12:46 »
It seems like a number of the family members (at least the parents, Harold, and Helen per their death certificates) were buried at Mount Olivet cemetery in Queens.  If you haven't done so already, you could see if the cemetery could provide you with a list of who is buried in the plot(s) with each of them.  https://www.nycmoc.com/contact  Sometimes that will yield a relative you didn't know about. 

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US Lookup Requests / Re: William & Catherine Sullivan (nee O'Shea) of Greenwich Village
« on: Today at 01:13 »
On www.fultonhistory.com, there is an article in the New York Sun from 30 Sep. 1936 that lists William as William H. Sullivan, 75 years old, and says he was found to be dead of natural causes in a hallway at 365 Bleecker Street and mentions that he was the father of Harold, the night club owner who had been killed on September 21.  There is also a shorter version of that article in the New York Evening Post from the same day.  I did a Boolean search for "william h. sullivan" and bleecker and 1936, and those should be the first two results.

Also, there are various articles on that site about Harold's death. 

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US Lookup Requests / Re: William & Catherine Sullivan (nee O'Shea) of Greenwich Village
« on: Today at 00:34 »
There were two other births that I wondered if they might belong to this couple.  William Sullivan and Catherine/Katherine O'Shea as parents, William's occupation as shipping clerk fits with the other births, and one is in the Greenwich Village area and the other is also in lower Manhattan. 

Anna Sullivan, b. 25 Nov. 1895 https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/958823

Elizabeth Sullivan, b. 23 May 1891 https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/556706

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US Lookup Requests / Re: William & Catherine Sullivan (nee O'Shea) of Greenwich Village
« on: Yesterday at 15:56 »
What do the census records from 1900-1930 say about William & Catherine's immigration status?  If naturalization records exist, they could be helpful.

If they were Catholic, Find My Past has parish marriages for Manhattan and some other nearby areas.  I didn't see any likely matches for your couple, but it may be worth checking in the future.  They also have some baptism records.  It's a subscription site, but it's searchable.

If you haven't done so already, DNA testing might be an option if you or other family members are biological descendants of this couple. 

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Four Winds Mount Kisco
« on: Sunday 27 April 25 01:17 BST (UK)  »
The New York state archives has some psychiatric records, but the rules significantly limit who can access them.

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Psychiatric center patient records

Access to all records of patients of state psychiatric centers (in several cases these facilities were formerly known as asylums or state hospitals) is indefinitely restricted

    See Mental Hygiene Law (MHL) sect. 33.13
    See (federal) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    Restrictions apply regardless of the date of the record.

MHL sect. 33.13 does authorize disclosure of information from patient records for specified legal and administrative purposes, and also to “qualified researchers.” Disclosure of information from patient records is also authorized by MHL sect. 33.16 to patients themselves and to other “qualified persons.”

All requests for access to patient records received by the State Archives are forwarded to the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), which reviews and approves or disapproves such requests.

Conditions and procedures for obtaining access to psychiatric center patient records in the State Archives differ for qualified researchers and former patients and their legal representatives, immediate family members, and descendants:
Qualified researchers

Researchers engaged in medical, historical, or other research are given access to psychiatric center patient records, under a provision of MHL sect. 33.13 and an inter-agency MOU between the OMH and the State Archives.

A researcher needing access to patient records should request an application form from the State Archives reference services unit and return the completed application to the Archives. The Archives then forwards the application to OMH. An OMH Institutional Review Board reviews the application and determines whether the applicant is a qualified researcher to whom the records may be disclosed. A qualified researcher must agree not to redisclose identifying information about any patient.

https://www.archives.nysed.gov/research/res_serv_access

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United States of America / Re: Trouble finding a census record
« on: Saturday 19 April 25 14:30 BST (UK)  »
It looks like Salvatore's name got switched and they were all transcribed with the surname Salvatore in Charles Town, WV in 1940.  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7C6-3B3?lang=en

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Ellen Cleary born c.1865 Tipperary died 1944 NY
« on: Monday 14 April 25 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Ellen's obituary is here, but no mention of parents or siblings.  https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-obituary-for-ellen-cleary/170311470/

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Ellen Cleary born c.1865 Tipperary died 1944 NY
« on: Monday 14 April 25 16:31 BST (UK)  »
Ellen's death certificate gives the same parents' names.  https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/714960

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Illinois Mining Certificates 1927
« on: Thursday 10 April 25 17:11 BST (UK)  »
Was Henry in Scotland for the 1911 census?  That might clear up whether or not he was in the US from 1907-1914. 

Also, with the reported leaving in 1914, he (or the cousin) might have gone back to fight in WWI.  I've also seen Scottish men who were in the US and went to Canada to join the military because Canada got involved in WWI before the US did. 

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