The mention of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham appeared in early acccounts of the family’s life in the Chicago Trib which may or may not now be available on line. I followed them from his step aunt’s(Virginia d.o.b 1935 located in AR) account of how she would be attending the coronation in D.C. Those articles appear on FR in late 2008 and mention how RWE Dunham worked at Boeing until his retirement. Other accounts also dispel the oft repeated myth that Stanley Armour discovered his mother’s body after she committed suicide when in actual fact she died of ptomaine poisoning as was mentioned in various newspaper articles earlier this year. Perhaps your best bet to find those articles is to go to google and to search for “articles posted at FreeRepublic by Chief Engineer” and focus on the Jr articles. All birth certificates for children born in British Columbia are registered with the Department of Vital Statistics and are only available to immediate family until 75 years after death. The only way around this would be to gain access to the microfiche in the basement at Vancouver General Hospital which was the closest hospital to the Salvation Army Booth Home for Unwed Mothers which was unfortunately torn down in 2002 or 2003.(That might not be as difficult as people think considering some of the robberies which have taken place at the hospital in the last year) I can finally actually obtain my father’s birth certificate by just going online, ain’t that special!
Madelyn originally worked at a restaurant but when Stanley Armour joined up she moved closer to home and took a job at the Boeing Plant so both Madelyn and Ralph Waldo both worked at the Plant while both Stanley and Ralph Jr enlisted, and Charles enlisted later (Crazy Uncle Charlie who came home from the war and remained in the attic for a year according to Jr)
Coronation? all interesting but way too much to look into to figure out where stanley ann was born. I could spend all day searching because I get involved but in my heart I know others who have a lot more time than I have done tons of research and they came up empty handed also. It is a waste of my time unless I want to use what obama allows. That is the first thing you learn in genealogy is always document births and deaths officially. When you start using something someone said you lose your way quickly. For obama that works in his favor.
Here we also have birth certificate laws because of identity theft. And some have told me because of kidnapping. You have to be the person or a family member and if it is for someone 18, they have to sign you can have it. After death it is easy.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545468,BSX-News-wotreeq09.stng
This article above has one of ralph dunham’s daughters by his second marriage saying her fathers first wife did commit suicide or going along with the reporter stating it. where did the rumor come from, obama’s books?
Thanks for the information. I see many doing their own genealogy on obama but not one reference to validate their information.