{"id":443,"date":"2010-02-16T18:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:19:37","slug":"where-in-the-world-is-sarah-riddner-in-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/where-in-the-world-is-sarah-riddner-in-1910\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the World is Sarah Riddner (in 1910)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

She should<\/span> be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her mother.\u00a0 She was only 2 at the time of the 1910 federal population census.<\/p>\n

This family has been most elusive in the 1910 census.\u00a0 Over the years I have tried every variation on the spelling of the last name that I can think of.\u00a0 Finally, in the past year, I had some successes.<\/p>\n

I know that her father (Ben Riddner) and her mother (Pearl Scheier Riddner) were in Milwaukee by about 1904 and married there in 1905.\u00a0 I have copies of the application for the license (which gave their parents’ names – hurrah!) and the registration of the marriage.\u00a0 I have a copy of Sarah’s birth certificate – she was born in Milwaukee in 1908.\u00a0 There is no reason to think that the family would be anywhere else.\u00a0 Except they don’t show up where I expected them to be.\u00a0 And, except that the family story is that Ben left them and divorced Pearl, at some point, and moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana.\u00a0 Not clear when.<\/p>\n

Then, having looked at everything (I thought), I went back and checked Ben’s name at ancestry.com again and – what do you know?! – a new database of crossings into the US from Canada.\u00a0 And it turns out that Ben had been in Canada since sometime in 1908 until Dec. 1910.\u00a0 So, no wonder I couldn’t find him in the census.\u00a0 But what about his wife and child?<\/p>\n

I started looking for Scheiers in the census.\u00a0 I knew that there were Scheier relatives in Wisconsin in about the same time period.\u00a0 I thought that a couple of them were brothers of Pearl, although I haven’t had evidence of that (beyond Sarah in later life calling them Uncle Doc and Uncle Louis).\u00a0 I looked and looked for either of these in the 1910 census.\u00a0 They, too, should be there and most likely in Wisconsin.\u00a0 Eventually, and just recently, I finally found Abe (later Dr. Abe) under the name Abe Sheer (at least that is how it was indexed).\u00a0 \"\"And, surprise!, when I looked at the image, he was living with his mother, Susie Sheir (Zissel or Zietle Scheier) and two sisters: Ida Sheer and Pearl Viddne (a misspelling of Riddner I never thought of).\u00a0 A bonus.\u00a0 I have some evidence that Abe and Pearl were brother and sister.\u00a0 And found another sister.<\/p>\n

But I still have missing Scheiers, and now I also have a mystery.\u00a0 Pearl was still married at that point.\u00a0 And she had a 2 year old daughter, who was not enumerated in the same household.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Was Sarah living somewhere else at the time?\u00a0 Why would she have been?\u00a0 The remaining person I know about in this family, Louis Scheier, is still among the missing in the 1910 census.\u00a0 The line for Susie or Zietle also shows that she had 9 children, 8 of whom were still living in 1910.\u00a0 So I’m looking for at least 3 more Scheiers, somewhere in the world.\u00a0 I have just finished going through the pages for the Ward and District that these Scheiers were in, page by page.\u00a0 No Louis and no Sarah.\u00a0 I tried looking at Heritage Quest briefly today, and still no Louis or Sarah.\u00a0 So I have my work cut out for me.\u00a0 Any suggestions are welcome as I make finding these two a goal for 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She should be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her mother.\u00a0 She was only 2 at the time of the 1910 federal population census. This family has been most elusive in the 1910 census.\u00a0 Over the years I have tried every variation …<\/p>\n

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