So, Grandma, You Were Born in Buffalo.

I had sat with my Grandma Zaky, Dad's mom, and asked her about her family.  I was told of the family moving from Austria to America to Austria to America.  Grandma was the child born here in America.  Mom and I have tried for years to get her birth certificate.  When you are looking for a birth certificate, you must go to the municipality the person was born in.  If she was born in Buffalo, New York, you go to City Hall.  If she was born in the Village of Lancaster, New York, the Village Hall and so on.

A couple things went wrong with our search.  Grandma always told us she was born in 1909.  That was vanity talking.  She did not want to be older than her daughter-in-law's (my mom) father.  We did find out she was born in 1907.  She never told us this, her death certificate did.  I wonder, however if the certificate is accurate.  I have a copy of her father's naturalization papers in which he indicated her birth years as 1904.

I'm going to try again.  I have her on the 1910 census. Her year of birth is listed as 1907.  This census lists her place of birth as New York.  However, the census lists her older brothers having been born in New York.  They were born in Austria.  I'm beginning to wish Old Grandpa had his facts, or white lies, written somewhere.  I will certainly let you know how this mystery turns out.