Genealogy Chat

COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT BOFNE MEANS IT HAS JUST COME UP ON MY GREAT GRANDADS CRNSUS INFORMATIOIT READS MARK LEVY,HEAD,MAR,26 HAIRDRESSER,BRITISH SUBJECT RUSSIA?BOFNE? HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP TRACEY

Could be short for something. Like Born Of.... maybe

Tracey Is this from an image or an index? It sounds as if it might be where he was born in Russia.

Also, just a thought, if he was born in Russia, with a name like Levy and was a British subject, then presumably there are naturalisation papers somewhere, probably in the National Archives.

How about 'Born of foreign nationality emigrated'? Helen :-)

Tracey, your great grandad is my husband's great grandfather also. What looks like Bofne is actually Cofno, which is how the person spelled Kovno - a town in what is now Lithuania but was then Russia. It is now spelled Kaunes. Go figure!

Cynthia

If you wish to attempt to contact Tracey, click on her name

She didn't apparently ever return to see the replies posted 8 years ago, so is hardly likely to be looking now

Dragging these truly old threads up where have been no postings for 8 years adding to the post if pretty pointless

As Reggie has said if you find an old thread that interests you and it has not been added to for any length of time, the logical course of action is to PM the original poster.

Cynthia is new to this....maybe she can be forgiven for not noticing the date of the first thread

Cynthia, you could start your own thread if you need any help

oh for heaven's sake, that is the one and only post Cynthia has ever made.

She joined genesreunited this very month, probably this very day. She may have googled something about her family that led her to this thread, and then went ahead and paid the membership fee so she could speak to Tracey.

I just googled
mark levy bofne russia
and came up with another thread of Tracey's the same day
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/861288

I saw someone else today who has obviously just done the same thing and I have explained about old threads and private messages without finding it necessary to complain.

I posted in an old thread when I subscribed a few weeks ago. I know about messages boards and dates, and I did it on purpose. It was information that I want to put in the thread whether or not the person who started the thread saw it, because someone else may find it some day and have a way of contacting me about it now (about our DNA project, the reason I subscribed). Not everybody who posts in old threads is a fool. Some of us mean to do it and some of us just need an explanation of things.

Cynthia knows now. That is, if she knows how to find the replies here ...

If she doesn't come back to the thread some kind soul needs to let her know how to find it I guess.

and now if somebody else goes googling for Mark Levy and Bofne in future, they will hopefully find the explanation here!

I have sent Cynthia a message, re how to get back here

Oh dear, I am in trouble! Thank you all for your advice. I contacted Tracey, but as no one seemed to have worked out what or where Bofne was, I thought it might be useful to add some information to a very old thread.

There you go -- just as I did when I added what I knew (or worked out because I wanted to know) to a not quite as old thread. :-)

We are 'making' history here, after all!