MEDIEVAL WHEEL OF TORTURE VICTIM SKELETON FOUND IN MILAN

DAILY MAIL UK : MEDIEVAL WHEEL OF TORTURE VICTIM SKELETON FOUND  by Joe Pinkstone

EXCERPT: It is not known for what crime the man was being punished, but the researchers say it could have been merely for looking different to the rest of society as he had protruding teeth and was 4.3 inches shorter than average.

MICHAEL BRUNNER - CHARLES MANSON's SON INTERVIEW

Raised by his mother's parents, Micheal Brunner's birth father was the infamous criminal CHARLIE MANSON, of MANSON FAMILY FAME.

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The town that this man's birth mother lived in was of historical interest, enough to spawn their own historical society. I go on line to see what they might have about the birth mother's family of origin. And they have a wonderful site. Several of her potential ancestors figure prominently in the development of the area, coming from Germany and farming acreage, for several decades in the 1800's. There are photos of farmhouses and barns, storage facilities and schools and parks bearing their names.  

If I can properly place his birth mother in one of these families, I can go back using census and into the German records.  We can get to the question of exactly which places in Germany his ancestors left so he can visit these towns on vacation. However, the truth of his birth mother's parentage has become a serious question, and the family that "fits" is one that for some reason is NOT included in any of the historical society's information. This means to me that though they share a common surname in the area, they might not be related to all those others who appear on records and in books and news articles - or for some reason might have been ostracized by that family. 

Using FAMILY SEARCH, I see several charts have been put up by various participants with accounts, some of them overlapping. I carefully look at what they call "sources" and find some unproofed work - work that includes what appears to be speculations.  It's kind of lame when a person has been given an identity number and because it's over 100 years since they were born they are considered "deceased" with no death records, very few marriage records.

None of these charts include the people who I suspect are REALLY his birth parents, the man who seems to have died the year before his wife died, with the two older sons.  In my gut I sense there was some sort of cover up. 

I go back to the couple who were listed on FIND A GRAVE as the parents of the buried birth mother with the tombstone that lists a maiden and "married" name.  I decide to go forward with census and well, this potential birth mother did not die in childbirth or thereafter.  She is in a mental hospital a decade after a possible birth and dies an old woman.  They also had one daughter.  I find her in the same mental hospital as well a decade after her mother. Since there were also institutions for TB (Tuberculosis) patients nearby I clarify that it was not TB but mental illness.  I remember that women were placed in institutions of "hysteria," such as high emotions, menopausal difficulties, and even being feminists or speaking up for themselves to their husbands. 

In a pioneer proud family who spawned college educated people, inventors, doctors, business people, and so on, and given the times when mental illness might include "women's complaints" and the shame people felt, well, I develop a scenario in my head. A genealogist doesn't want to discredit oral histories, and everyone has an opinion, but I suspect that the people listed on FIND A GRAVE were not this woman's parents but perhaps she remembered them because early on SOMEONE in the large family did visit with her.

My client looks at the census records I've printed out and seems to be "remembering" various names. I have to caution him that these are names that his mother might have either remembered or learned from her own research when she became an adult. When it comes right down to it, no one adopted her, no one took her in, no one kept in touch with her as an adult, no one seemed concerned that she was alone in life and had a son she had to give up.

I feel for him.  But we need to get the facts straight.

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WOMAN WHO WAS ABANDONED IN A DUMPSTER AS A BABY SEEKS HER RESCUERS

This one really tugged at my heartstrings.  Over 30 years ago in January 1983  Amanda Jo Jones was found in a dumpster.  Grateful for her life, she would like to know who her rescuers were and thank them personally.  She also forgives her birth parents.

DAILY MAIL :AMANDA JO JONES SEEKS HER RESCUERS - FOUND IN DUMPSTER AS A BABY

EXCERPT:  After paying $35 for non-identifying information from the Georgia Adoption Reunion Registry, she learned that she was fostered by a family until she was three months old, and they allegedly named her Crystal Alicia Fairchild.

MIDCONTINENT (of the USA) PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY RESOURCES

MIDCONTINENT PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY DATABASES

Some of the databases require you be in the library in person.  Most of you in the United States who have a good library system to use already have some of these databases at your local library where you can work in person.  (Although actually sitting for hours in front of one of their computers is not always possible.)  However, I heard this library was amazing so I thought we should look into it.

THE VIRGINIA COMPANY ARCHIVES
BRITISH LIBRARY NEWSPAPERS
IRISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Many other newspapers including CONFEDERATE NEWSPAPERS
and ARCHIVE FINDER are some of the offerings I haven't seen before locally.

ANCIENT AND STRONG

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The man I'm working with told me that his birth mother had been placed in the Catholic Orphanage because her mother had "died in childbirth or soon after." This would mean that her mother's death date and her birth date should be close.

Back in the day such a child had a chance of being raised by relatives, especially if there was a large family in the area - almost a clan as this one was, by paid governess or care giver as many women took children in for very little money, a kind of informal day care, and sometimes a man would remarry quickly to have a mother for his children and take a motherless child back from the orphanage. 

Why had none of these things happened when it's clear that the birth family and their blood relatives were numerous and close by?  Is it true that a father visited her until he died?

One possibility is that this huge extended family all had so many children of their own to afford and care for.  Or they considered her parents to be the black sheep of the family (rightfully or not.)

I ran a little research on the present-day members of this family as well as members of this family that were considered famous within their small community in the past 100 years and they are doing well. They had farmsteads early and those who had never been to school afforded their children college educations... It's the old story of early land ownership leading to profits of selling it so a suburb can be developed.

I went back to that birth and death index available online for the county and state and searched for all women of the birth mother's maiden surname who had died the same year or so that she had been born.  I found ONE. 

I found THAT family on the census. This potential birth parents couple are not the "Bob and Mary So and So" that appear on the FIND A GRAVE information. In this family there were two sons who were older. This works with the story that after the father died the two sons were not interested in helping their sister. But there's a problem in that the man of the house died the year before his wife - a possible birth mother candidate - died. He thus could not be a father who visited her until he died. He still could have begot and then died. I need to find the exact dates of his birth and death as he does come up on FINDAGRAVE but there are no details on his tombstone which is not in the family graveyard of the other persons with that surname but in the graveyard of his wife's family.

He also does not come up on that state's death indexes!

This could mean he died elsewhere.
But sending for his burial record or a diocese record of his death/funeral may help.  

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