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I am the granddaughter of John McGinnis of Allendale NJ. He had three children, my father Joseph Myles (Nick) McGinnis, another son John, and a daughter Helen. Everyone of them is deceased. My father was born sometime in the late 1930s.
I am looking for anyone who may have remembered this family and can offer any assistance. I was born in 1969 and lost both parents and was adopted. I am trying to reconstruct my family tree. I have found cousins (Helen married John Kennelly) who told me my grandfather worked for AT&T.
Hi, I would suggest also posting this on citydata's genealogy forum. There's lots of people there that will help.
You can try tracing your family through old census and city directories.
There's an Allendale Historical Society. I don't know what resources they have, but you can try writing and asking.
Allendale Historical Society
PO Box 294
Allendale, NJ 07401
201-327-0605
The 1940 census was recently released, but NJ isn't indexed yet. Since your gf was born in the 1930's than you should find him on the 1940 census. Ancestry.com which is a subscriber site has been offering free access to the 1940 census.
Our last name is Hamilton and most of our relatives hails from the Philadelphia area. We have McGinnis is our family tree on my father's side. My brother, who lives in NC, sent me a photo today of a hanger with "John E. McGinnis, 589 [illegible] Tpke, Allendale, NJ" stamped on it.
Our last name is Hamilton and most of our relatives hails from the Philadelphia area. We have McGinnis is our family tree on my father's side. My brother, who lives in NC, sent me a photo today of a hanger with "John E. McGinnis, 589 [illegible] Tpke, Allendale, NJ" stamped on it.
Could it be Franklin Turnpike? That is a major road in Allendale and there is a house with that address there. Jay
Our last name is Hamilton and most of our relatives hails from the Philadelphia area. We have McGinnis is our family tree on my father's side. My brother, who lives in NC, sent me a photo today of a hanger with "John E. McGinnis, 589 [illegible] Tpke, Allendale, NJ" stamped on it.
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Originally Posted by JayCT
Could it be Franklin Turnpike? That is a major road in Allendale and there is a house with that address there. Jay
I am from that area, and agree that it would likely be Franklin Turnpike, which is an old road that runs through Allendale.
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Allendale used to be such a pretty town. My sister kept her horses at a stables there in the 70s and 80s. It had a nice semi-rural vibe and was more of a working-class place. AB&G was a comfortable old pub with good food.
It is still a nice town, but in a different way. Overbuilt and money-oriented now. The little downtown has been dressed up to look precious, and AB&G is a yuppie hangout. Like most of the NW Bergen County towns, the whole flavor changed when people from closer to the city drove up in their BMWs waving their checkbooks and looking for McMansions.
My daughter's classmate's parents moved to Midland Park in the 90s from Allendale when their kids started hearing "Your father is a nobody--he cuts our lawn" in school. (They had a landscaping business.) It's a shame. Obviously not everyone is that way, but when money moves in, it often brings a lot of ugliness.
Some towns have newspaper archives with items from all over the state and peppered with out of state articles. Not just their specific town.
Hunterdon co archives, accessed thru the Sutton family history link, has many news items from the early 1800s and up.
Woodbridge library archives as well. Old newspapers long gone are archived and sometimes you can find info on family members no one in the family ever knew or talked about. Most of those search engines are poorly developed but useful
Lot of weird stuff, they celebrated guys going off to war , who vacationed where and so forth, as well as obits.
Some towns have newspaper archives with items from all over the state and peppered with out of state articles. Not just their specific town.
Hunterdon co archives, accessed thru the Sutton family history link, has many news items from the early 1800s and up.
Woodbridge library archives as well. Old newspapers long gone are archived and sometimes you can find info on family members no one in the family ever knew or talked about. Most of those search engines are poorly developed but useful
Lot of weird stuff, they celebrated guys going off to war , who vacationed where and so forth, as well as obits.
Haha, my sister has done our genealogy and accessed some old newspaper articles. A couple of years ago, she found an article in a Paterson newspaper from the 1880s about our family.
The city planned to widen an alleyway into a street to provide access for a neighborhood to the main road, but because the neighborhood that needed the access was mostly black, our ancestors didn't want the project to happen because then they would have black people walking past the building where they lived and had a business. When the surveyors came to start the work, our family interfered by taking their equipment and getting in their way so that they couldn't get the work done. They finally just went home.
We don't know what happened subsequently, but we laughed about this not-so-proud-moment in family history.
Allendale used to be such a pretty town. My sister kept her horses at a stables there in the 70s and 80s. It had a nice semi-rural vibe and was more of a working-class place. AB&G was a comfortable old pub with good food.
It is still a nice town, but in a different way. Overbuilt and money-oriented now. The little downtown has been dressed up to look precious, and AB&G is a yuppie hangout. Like most of the NW Bergen County towns, the whole flavor changed when people from closer to the city drove up in their BMWs waving their checkbooks and looking for McMansions.
My daughter's classmate's parents moved to Midland Park in the 90s from Allendale when their kids started hearing "Your father is a nobody--he cuts our lawn" in school. (They had a landscaping business.) It's a shame. Obviously not everyone is that way, but when money moves in, it often brings a lot of ugliness.
I loved the AB&G. I hung out there a LOT back in the early 80’s (1979 to 1985) and more occasionally until about 1993. I hate to tell you this but it was full of yuppies back then. The only difference is that they weren’t called that yet. I had a coworker that lived there. From what I remember back then Allendale was middle and upper middle class, not what I would call rural or working class. Anyway it definitely was a nice town. Would have loved to live there but it was out of my class back then. Maybe still is. Jay
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