Hi Annasmom, yes me too see a remarkable likeness: the form eyes, the ears form, the chin, the part under the nose, the mouth, the oval, the hairs junction, the forehead, and more: the build... frankly, dear Annasmom, I see a remarkable likeness, and saying this as artist( I'm painter) and I know as to make a face and what to see... the name of this person is very similar to our bad guy... the age don't match, but it matching many other things second the opinion that I have of this guy...
As I already saying, I'm artist and I'm a genealogist,( a good genealogist), but for hobby; and precisely I'm a researcher of italian origins of emigrants, and what my experience saying, it is: to start from sure data. Also I love the dream's interpretation.
In your search the sure data is the pictures of George Brody, especially the picture with the phrase... because in this picture he is more young...
In this months I read many times the postings, and the notebook, and the pictures... with the hope of "to enter" in George Brody; when I say "to enter" I mean to enter in the him psyche...
What I can say abt our bad guy is ( just a my personal opinion):
-he had persuasion power, and this depend from language ability, from to know the persons, what they wish from life, and the persuasion ability consist in making to see a mirage like truth; so the interlocutor become a victim;
-he had a large knowdlege, and this knowdlege it could not have it if it had spold its life working, because from what he wrote, well it is a knowdlege that need of much free time... he never worked in pure sense, and he never loved the work;
-he sure had high school, and in all writing I see a initial deep knowdlege of spiritual matter; after this spiritual knowdlege had a bad deviation, becoming a mixture of esoterism, psychoanalysis, and personal thesis;
-he sure travelled in Europe, I was sure abt this...
-maybe what he made with GW, he could be made also with some other; it is a my personal opinion, but I believe that was not this the first experience for GB;
-when I say "esoterism", I mean not a banal esoterism; because he was another in the night, with energy etc... he became a different person... so in the night he was in own comfort, ease.... he loved not the light...
he was a person that had never the idea in him mind of death; he always lived as he could die never.. this is strange for a old man, but this could be not strange for a esoterist man that think of to have the eternity's secret...
-he saying many lies; this is typical of who wish not being recognized...; so in all that he said are many lies and some thing no perfectly true... one of this is the him name; in notebook, abt GW new passport, eluding the details in this moment, well what I thinked is that he was able in the "games" with own name, this is typical of cheaters; so changing a little particular in own name he becoming another people, completely different; but the particular must be very little, because he can go back, and always to explain it on document as a officer error.. it is a my opinion...
-so starting from all this points, he searched a man with similar name and similar face and build...
-I found 2 passports of a person (the man in pictures) and I followed him traces until 1929; I cannot find it in 1930 census;
I believe that I find it also as a young reverend in 1903 and 1904; sure the man in picture until 1929 never worked in correct sense: never; never married; in the passports it is wrote "partner" as profession... but in the censuses until 1920 he never worked, only in 1900 he was student in young age;
he was a strange people, because he declared many times different ages (always more young and of so much! and always with intention, so seeming to me, because he studied so no ignorant, and this error was a intentional error), and I'm sure that is he because the address is the same; sometime I found the correction of him birthyear by officers on the ship's manifest; he sometime declared born in September, sometime in October; the day is always equal... he made many trips in Europe (
France, Belgium, Italy and more) and Canada, I cannot find it on the military enlistment, and I searched so much...
I cannot say if this could be our guy,
but sure is a person very similar in face and body... the birthyear don't matching, but if this person in the picture was old of 42 and seems of 25/30 old on the passports, it is possible that he when appeared 70 old or so he was more old? a man that never worked and with excellent DNA could appear more young... I knew men of 90 old and seemed of 70 ... but in any case the birthyear don't matching....
Dear Annasmom what you think? I know that the birthyear of GB could be between 1895/1915/1920... but he could be born before of 1895?
This man in picture was born in Manhattan, NY from a Irish father and american mother.. he was student in 1900 census, but not scholar... in 1910 census he no working and ditto in 1920... in this census he use for the first time the name Geo and not the complete first name.... I cannot find it in 1930 census but I'm sure that he back in the USA in june 1929 and for the first time the address changed, but always in NYC... in 1930 NY census, I found it not, and I found it not in all states, so my opinion was that this man changed the identity, making the
joke of ages also for the name....
but it is possible that is only a banal resemblance...
Let me know your suggestions, sorry for my english,
best regards,
raf
ps: I narrated the Anna story to two my little friends, 2 little girls that are the daughters of a my female friend, both we travel in order to go in City, in the morning; I have told the story, but only for to make understand that the mother love never surrender
