Proof would require a day or two in San Luis Obispo.
Based on what’s been posted here, all that would be in county offices and the local library.
I’m free next week, so if someone here wants to comp travel expenses, I’d look all the records up.
The Jean Paul Ludwig theory may have been disproven.
Try it for yourself. Enter the social security number 045-26-8722
into the SSDI database, leaving the name and other fields blank, at
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
It comes back as Jean Ludwig, with the birth and death dates matching.
The SSN used by Obama is reportedly a different number, 042-68-4425
Jean Paul Ludwig travelled a lot in Europe and England other places Then it switched to a Paul Ludwig b about 1890 Germany in and out everywhere
Then I found a WWII Draft Registration John Paul Ludwig High Ridge Road, New Canaan, Fairfield, CT PO Box 458 New Canaan CT Telephone skip it Age 52 Place of Birth Ammersville France Born February 17, 1890 Who will always know your name and address Florence Ludwig same address Employer's Name and Address S. A. Reed, New Cannan, CT
1920 Census
Florence C. Ludwig John Ludwig abt 1893 NY 1920 Manhattan Assembly District 21, New York, NY
1930 Census
Florence C. Ludwig John Ludwig abt 1892 1930 - Manhattan, New York, NY Edward Fitzgerald 63 Annie Fitzgerald 60 (parents of Florence)
Florida Divorce Records Ludwig, John P. Florence C. Dade County, 1946
A few more, rest are forms that messed up my document, will have to transcribe if and when I can get to it
Jean Paul Ludwig State: Pennsylvania District Court Western District, Pennsylvania Record 73930 Description (Roll 396) Petitions 73801-74200 Archive National Archives, Washington, DC Naturalization Petititions of the U.S. District Court, 2810-1930 and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western District of Pennsylvania Archive Series M1537 Archive Roll 396
UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
John Paul Ludwig abt 1891 Rangoon, Burma Southampton, England Ports of Voyage Port Said Ship Name Mauretania Shipping line: Henderson Line Official Number 124249
UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Birth abt 1890 Age 40 Port of Departure New York, NY US Arrival Date 17 Jan 1930 Port of Arrival Plymouth, England Ship Name George Washington Shipping line US Line Official Number 215447
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Jean Ludwig Arrival Date 9 Sep 1923 Birth abt 1890 Birth Location France Location Other rimmeersville (sic) Age 33 Gender Male Ethnicity/Race French Port of Departure Genoa, Italy Port of Arrival New York NY Ship Name Conte Verde
Quite a few more then switched to Paul Ludwig same age, b Germany, may be coincidental.
Following are some Harvard archives
http://www.archive.org/stream/1911report02harvuoft/1911report02harvuoft_djvu.txt
CANADA
Chambly Canton, (Quehec). H. C. Wells. Cobalt, (Ontario). F. W. Young. Welland, (Ontario). S. A. Reed. (Harvard Class of 1911 per google books) Murdoch, Richard (1912) Myer, William Henry (1912) Nash, Russell Kimball ^Neal, Albert Durant* Phelan, Maurice Edward Piel, Paul Michael Reed, Stephen Alexander Sabine, Stephen Webb Savery, James (Cox) (1914) Schiller, Avery Reubens Shapleigh, Samuel Chandler Spofford, Harry Herbert Raw- son Sprague, Henry Bancroft * Squibb, George Sampson Strieker, Eli Henry Taylor, John Mackintire * Thompson, Edward Josiah
CANADA
Chambly Canton, (Quehec). H. C. Wells. Cobalt, (Ontario). F. W. Young. Welland, (Ontario). S. A. Reed.