Who was George Brody?

[itsreenw]

Brody, George He (GENDER)

IN 1981, RESIDED AT:

SOMEWHERE IN CA, USA

DIED ON 12/24/1981 NEAR:

San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA, USA, 94101

 

[Gina_M]

I was kicking around an idea today...we have disseminated information about Anna through posters/flyers and now the bumper sticker. Could the same be done for Brody? I am living in eastern PA now, close to where Margaret was from, and possibly where Brody was from as well. I would gladly put out flyers in the area and/or put a Brody bumper sticker on my car. Maybe someone would recognize him.

 

[Cubby]

Some great idea's Gina. I would like to see some done in the SF area's Doogie was able to find historical info tied to GB. Since we have never uncovered any proof tying GB to the east coast, I am tending to believe much of the east coast relative info from GB was all BS and part of GB's con game to manipulate GW. Nothing more than lying about some facts to demonstrate some familiarity with GW and get his claws dug into GW. Just mo and I could be wrong.

 

[Annasmom]

Some great idea's Gina. I would like to see some done in the SF area's Doogie was able to find historical info tied to GB. Since we have never uncovered any proof tying GB to the east coast, I am tending to believe much of the east coast relative info from GB was all BS and part of GB's con game to manipulate GW. Nothing more than lying about some facts to demonstrate some familiarity with GW and get his claws dug into GW. Just mo and I could be wrong.

A close friend who is just now reading Searching for Anna for the first time wrote me yesterday: "After all these years my distaste for Brody comes back like thunder heard in a nightmare." I know there are things we could do to try to find out more about GB. A letter with a picture to Children's Hospital, a poster at the Denny's near their hotel. I just can't seem to make myself do it. I think that after all these years I, too, mentally put Brody in a kind of nightmare.

 

[itsreenw]

Some great idea's Gina. I would like to see some done in the SF area's Doogie was able to find historical info tied to GB. Since we have never uncovered any proof tying GB to the east coast, I am tending to believe much of the east coast relative info from GB was all BS and part of GB's con game to manipulate GW. Nothing more than lying about some facts to demonstrate some familiarity with GW and get his claws dug into GW. Just mo and I could be wrong.

Didn't he have a professional picture taken in NY?

 

[itsreenw]

I just emailed the editor of the SF Chronicle and asked that they do an article on Anna and include pics of the 2 Georges and Anna to see if anyone recognizes any of them. I mentioned the book and included the link.

(Fingers crossed)

 

[Cubby]

Keeping my fingers crossed itsreen.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11624535@N08/1140825134/in/set-72157601489072011/

Is this the pic you were talking about or was there another? The above was taken in SF.

 

[smile22]

i was looking at that picture of him again the professional one and he looks a lot like my friends ex husbands best friend who is about 28 and lives here on the east coast

 

[itsreenw]

Keeping my fingers crossed itsreen.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11624535@N08/1140825134/in/set-72157601489072011/

Is this the pic you were talking about or was there another? The above was taken in SF.

I thought there was a pic in NY. My mistake. Sorry.

 

[Cubby]

I thought there was a pic in NY. My mistake. Sorry.

No need to apologize. There is a lot of info here, some which I have to look up to remember. I'm sure there is stuff I have not seen and I have noticed you remember things I have forgotten itsreen. Thanks for sending the email to the SF Chronicle.

 

[NJshrink]

I haven't been on-line for awhile, so I am trying to catch up on new posts. I'm sorry if any of this is redundant.

Susanne Patricia Crawford said she was born between 1960-1968 and lived in Royal Oak Michigan. Her next door neighbor was a Cheridy Cook. She believes she was adopted around age 4. There is an interesting Petition of Citizenship listed in Vol. 1 p. 117 Crawford MI HTML code #1230 the site is www.lofthouse.com/w3/m/163.htm

Margaret Kukoda age 35 investigated for performing abortions in San Francisco in the early 1940's Investigators Melvin Jorgenson and William COOK. No date on report site http:im1.shutterfly.com/proserv/47b6d933b3127cce8b6ffa8df421...

Betty Bouslog SS Death Index (561-16-7514) b. 9/6/1898 d. 2/1979 CA

Anna-Bouslog-Davis aka. Elizabeth, Ann, Anna, Peggy, Eliza, Ellie, Liz, Beth, Betty, Betsy, Bette, Annie, Peggy dob. 12/30/1902, 1896, 1903, and 1900 disappeared with "John Spooner" and worked in Presidio Naval Hospital, SF

Mary Bouslog ss Death Index (306-48-7155) Indiana b. 3/17/1875 d. 1/1972

Betty Jean Bouslog CA birth index dob. 9/29/1942 mother's maiden name Mauceri in Los Angeles

To be continued...

 

[NJshrink]

Social security death index George Brody (565-18-5063) b. 9/25/1901 d. 1/1980 CA

Anna JOHANSON age 59 boarder in Houston County Alabama Precinct 3 1930
Effie Pomiselb(?) age 22 or 32 boarder in same house

August 24, 1911 SS. Kaiser Wilhelm II sailing from Cherbourg EFFIE WATERS
age 57 along with Lucey Lovell 21, Gertrude Lovell 24 and Margaret Lovell 18 all headed to Lancaster(?) PA

WWI draft registration Tony Kukoda farmer, wife Ester age 44 b. 4/16/1874 registered in Phillipsburg Manor, NJ

WWI draft registration George A. Brody married, wife native born, Mass. b. 11/24/1888 age 29 Philadelphia, PA

To be continued...

 

[Dr. Doogie]

Good stuff, NJShrink. I look forward to the continuation.

Some of this we were aware of, but we may need to take a second look at those items. And several facts are new to us. Once you finish your posts, we can examine the data and see where to go next with this info.

 

[NJshrink]

1930 Bucks county PA census Anthony Kuboda farmer from Hungary age 56, wife Esther 45, Stephen 22, Joseph 19, Mark 16, Michael 14, MARGARET 13, John 10, Madelina 8 children born in NJ

WWII enlistment George A Brody b. 1917 enlisted 6/25/1942 Pittsburgh PA
single ht. 67" wt. 134

WWII enlistment George Brody b. 1902 enlisted Philadelphia, PA now in Alaska 10/19/1942 married ht. 63" wt. 134

WWII enlistment George Brody b. 1918 enlisted Wilkes Barre, PA on 1/17/1941 ht. 67" wt. 148

US Public Records George Brody 12 Blackman St. Wilkes Barre, PA county Luzerne record # 515212029 phone# 570-823-8289 no date

CA death index Margaret Kukoda ss#569429507 b. 8/3/1917 NJ died 8/3/1967 San Francisco

More to follow...

 

[NJshrink]

WWII draft registration George William Brody Monte Clair Ave. Linda, CA county Yuba dob. 7/12/1886 wife Myrtle Brody born Poland town Missouri

1930 CA census San Francisco 27th district George Brody age 40 wife Margaret 35 he stated father unknown mother from Germany listed self from Ohio and a merchant, she from NJ

1930 Boston MA census county Suffolk George Brodie 45 wife Mary 49, daughter Margaret 15, Willhamena 12 and son George Jr. 11 teamster

1930 Chicago Illinois census Cook county Mary Hunyo 35 with daughter Elizabeth K 12, Anna 7 living with brother PETER WANKO 33, half brother George Polacek 33 and boarder GEORGE BRODY 33 all Czechoslovakian. George P and Peter W were previously from PA

1930 MA census county Suffolk Precinct 7 George Brody age 40 roomer teamster Express Co.

1930 NY< NY census block K Albert A Brody 35 attorney living with brother George 31 salesman Russian

WWI draft card George Brody age 29 dob. 4/17?1898 wife and children Bronx, NY tailor signed G. Brudin from Austria

WWI draft George Brody dob. 8/28/1899 student Philadelphia Dental college mother Hannah Brody NY age 19

1932 sailing from Breman July 13 list 31 Georg Brody age 23 from Budapest going to NY also aboard was a Michael Bozselhacz age 21

1939 sailing from LeVerdon on the SS Washington Oct. 26 was a George Brody 34 with a Sylvia Brody nee Klein 31 he spoke Hungarian, Hebrew from Budapest on a QIV 148 visa

1920 NY census Kings county Jake Brody 40, wife Dova(Dora?) 37, Beckelu? 14, Yetta12, Harry?10, George 8, Hannah 8 and Helen 2 Jake was a peddler

WWI draft Jeorg Brody 24 Lakewood Ohio single dob. 5/25/1893 employed in Scranton, PA from Hungary (duplicate copy)

WWI draft George Brody age 27 Cleveland, Ohio single from Austro-Hungary dob. 9/11?1890 signed Brodi Gyorgy merchant

WWII draft George Brody Toledo Ohio age 46 dob. 5/6/1895 born Chengava Austria person who knows his whereabouts is listed as George Kostak c/o Mather Spring Co. Toledo

1930 Boston city census, MA Suffolk county ward 12 block 20 Sigmund Brody 40, wife Sarah 38, George 11, Dorothy 10, Francheska? 7, Albert 4, and Anna 1 father worked at a slaughterhouse

1930 Boston city census Suffolk county George Brody 21 boarder Russia
in same building is Elizabeth K Busley or Brody age 30 from Vermont and NY

 

[Dr. Doogie]

Annasmom:

I know that this has been asked before, but I cannot recall the answer: Was Brody in to Tarot cards at all?

 

[Annasmom]

Annasmom:

I know that this has been asked before, but I cannot recall the answer: Was Brody in to Tarot cards at all?

He wasn't "into" them, but he did mention them a couple of times, somewhat pejoratively, as a kind of "gypsy" thing.

 

[NJshrink]

I had a few ideas based on some of my/other recent posts. My sense is that Brody and his Margaret/Mary/Betsy had a long history of baby brokering. It seems that they frequently just disappeared ("died") and reemerged with different names and dates. Ironically even after Margaret Kukoda is to have died in 1967, her name in variations continues on some census records. Next, I did find some old sites in Fayette, PA? that showed a cousin Tony or George living with the others family. Unfortunately I didn't download those. In any case I do believe the families were from Hungary. With that in mind, I reread the PLAN and thought that it was a $ arrangement made in Jan. 1973 and that some of the letters were printed with Yiddish( a combination of Cyrillic and Hebrew) letters, particularly the initials. I do not obviously have the originals, so my read may be off but I believe the family whose last name is listed as "L". The first set of initials to the right seems to be ATZE (that's phonetic). Also in the recent writing sample it says with English "the people she knows,,,then Betsy. I also came across the author Jean Marie Laskas aka Laskeas who is a professor at the Univ. of Pittsburgh who wrote several books about adopting. One is Fifty Acres and a Family and another is Fifty Acres and a Poodle. I'm sure you probably already checked her out but her picture pre-cancer treatment look like a double for Anna. Her stories also include an attack by a rooster, farm animals and a poodle named Sparkey.

 

[iNTERESTEDWOMAN]

...snip... I also came across the author Jean Marie Laskas aka Laskeas who is a professor at the Univ. of Pittsburgh who wrote several books about adopting. One is Fifty Acres and a Family and another is Fifty Acres and a Poodle. I'm sure you probably already checked her out but her picture pre-cancer treatment look like a double for Anna. Her stories also include an attack by a rooster, farm animals and a poodle named Sparkey.

If she didn't have undoubtedly blue eyes, (Anna's are brown), I would be freaking out now. Especially reading her bio, and finding that one of her adopted daughters was named Anna. Her writing abilities, her farm life, her adoption history and even her looks are very intriguing.

 

[Dr. Doogie]

Jeanne Marie Laskas appears to be too old - 49 years old. I can a possibility of a year or two either way from 40, but not nine years. The rooster story is intriguing though.