Person talk:Meinte Jorritsma (2)

Emigration [30 March 2023]

Are you sure he didn't emigrate? Many of his wife's siblings did. --pkeegstra 21:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Paul, you are right, I mixed him up with one of the other Meinte Jorritsma's. Could you delete his death date? I do not know how I can do that.

Regards, Jan.--Jhharlaar 11:51, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

So here's the rest of the story. For sure he did emigrate, and made it to New York City. I looked and looked, but could not find any record of his death. The best I could do was prove it was before 1900 based on his wife's entry on the 1900 census. Note that Swierenga says their destination was Jamestown, NY, but she is in Grand Rapids by 1900. I suspect he did in fact die in New York State, and his wife went to Grand Rapids after he died. That would mean that the death record is from New York State, and is unlikely to be online anyplace; in Michigan death record coverage for 1890-1897 is pretty good, and coverage 1897-1900 is even better. (In 1897 Michigan started requiring an individual death certificate signed by a doctor for every death. And images of all those death certificates are online.) --pkeegstra 00:53, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

He had a Michigan death certificate after all. The breakthrough came when I got an Ancestry Shakey Leaf for his FindAGrave page.