Hi all!
Dear Cubby I searched all George with similar surname spelling and nobody matching...
when I think abt GB I think to "Billy liear" movie( 1963)... I know not why this thought is in my mind, but GB remember to me "Billy liar"..
Yesterday, strangely, I found a record... the record came up on the ancestry database, so, just for luck...
I found a record and I can say that is the more interesting record found until now... It are no more records... that is my last hope....
until now ... : I cannot demonstrate that this man is our GB... I searched in old newspapers and no article abt this man... if the other records found here in so much time, matching for the 30% or 40%... this my last record matching more...
as all know, from when I'm member of this forum, well in all this time,
reading and reading abt GB,
thinking and thinking abt GB, the my idea abt who was this man really, I explained here some day ago... now I found this last record and I hope of to find some proof that can demonstrate that is our GB...
but frankly, it will be very hard... but so,
to nose seeming to me that can be he... I cannot find the death of this man ... he was born the 25 aug 1907 in California..
In 1929 this man declaring him birthplace: Oakland, CA;
false; maybe last residence, it is possible..... In 1930 he was in Fresno, CA...
after this year I cannot find more infos in residential peoples...
but I know that he was imbarked in some ship, just some travel.... for works on the ship...
I believe that he worked sometimes in the hotels in young age, as a well for little time on the ships... and after unemployed....
The parents was divorced and the last census is abt 1920; I found infos abt the father, and abt a brother, but not for others.... but the search is long....
this man was 5' 4"/ 5' 5"
but I have not the eye's color; the father had blue eyes...I believe that this man changed the surname in Brody... this is possible, because the birth surname is similar in the first part...
When I found the record for emigration in Canada of 1929, and this George declared that was born in Oakland, CA, this lie, let me search better...
I know that he was born in Butte, CA... so
Oakland was false... nearest relative the father, policeman in Los Angeles
... and yes I found also.. the father was patrolman for 4 years only, in Los Angeles, after moved in Yuba, where died in 1969... from this info I am sure that this George B. was born in Butte, CA in the 1907, 25 august..
he was no admitted for the emigration in Canada, so back in USA; I wish to find the back travel record... It was no necessary declaring a false birth town... so why???
but no important, because finally I found a GB liar....
the last time that I found it- with true birth name
-is the 1930 census of Fresno, CA... after no more as residential people.. so I believe that after the 1930 census, he changed the surname... maybe more times....
after 1930 just some travel ( I found only 3, but I must to check other records) around 1943/8 ( 1948 maybe last trip)..
but obviously in this travels he had own birth name because he was rightly engaged; I am sure that is the same person, because same age, same work, same heigh...
maybe around this years and on a ship... he knew MK?? possible....??
I wish say that are all and only my suggestions, until now....
Well, now..... Why I think to "Billy liar"... abt GB?
Because in all this time of search, and
very deep search, as I already said, I had my own idea abt our GB; that for experience as genealogist; and my experience saying that when nothing came up, with certainty
some basic data is wrong.. so needing re-start the search and changing some thing...
and "Billy liar"?
GB as Billy liar had own fantastic world... so abt the following lies:
-boxe...
GB boxer?? never... but it was a boxer very famous living in California: Herb Brodie ... died in San Francisco .. the George surname maybe inspirated from that....??
he
captured some infos by newspapers abt other important Brody/Brodie people and put in own life....
-relatives with money???
ohhhhhh.... but also that is a lie... it was Michael Brodie oleo margarine millionaire... also this info it was
captured by mass media
-the birthdate... ???
the year is false... completely... maybe the month can be right... the my last record is abt a man born the 25 aug and not the 15 aug... in 1907 and for that matching with 1941 GB age (article)
-involved in the politic???
but it was so much people involved in the politic...
-salesman and jr research assistant ( professions in Oakland)
seeming to me, that around 1940's he was a bit old for to be a
junior assistant...; research... ? of what? what he was researching for? maybe the numerology...
.... so vague profession... so vague... as a lie...
I believe instead that he was a man working mainly in the hotels.... some month in a town, some month in another, that almost when he was young... making also many little works, all humbles.... until he stopped in Oakland... I believe that in 1936, same period, this man, GB also named, before of to stay in Oakland was in San Leandro... but I cannot confirm it...
It would be interesting to know the astrologic birth chart also of this GB born the 25 aug 1927 in Butte, CA...
hoping annoyed nobody with my thoughts...
thanks,
raf