Wilfred William Dale

Wilfred William Dale was born in Utah in 1874 and was the son of Wilford Dale and Anna Courts. Does any one know anything about him please?

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on September 24, 2009 at 10:08am

Hi Unknown Ancestor and Margaret. ..

Unknown Ancestor ... As I understand, Margaret lives on one side of the pond and has information about the family there. One or more branches of the family immigrated to the USA. I believe Margaret is hoping to learn enough about those who immigrated so that, one day, she may reach out to surviving descendants on this side of the pond and help them learn their UK roots. No doubt a worthy goal.

Margaret ... Unknown Ancestor is one of "our" bests! We are lucky when Unknown Ancestor takes interest and chimes in!
Believe I'm the party who suggested you work "from the known" to the unknown. Also, in an early post, you reached out for help about all "the descendants of Wilford Dale and his father Joseph Dale who emigrated to America about 1869." As you know, a volunteer could spend years hoping to help you locate the all the descendants of an 1869 immigrant.
I suggested you'd have better luck if you focused on a particular family group (as we find on a family group sheet; I wrote, a "separate ... family query"), rather than "all the descendants of XXXX Dale." Said another way, if Wilford Dale had 15 children, then you might develop a family group sheet [singular] about Wilford Dale, his wife/wives, and their 15 children and fashion a query [singular] around that family group. In the alternative, you might prefer to begin with his father. In that case, Joseph Dale and his wife/wives would be head of the family. You would develop that family group sheet and the related query.
Do you have a good family group sheet form? If so, use it to record the information you know about that family group (events and citations), being as specific as you can about dates, places, locations, etc. (After all, you are woking on a "Dale" family.) When your family group sheet is in good order, the additional information you want to learn about that family will probably be obvious and you can fashion a query seeking the assistance you need to complete the family group.

Margaret, your goal is so worthy, such a gift! Will you let me know if this helps. -GJ

Permalink Reply by GeneJ on September 24, 2009 at 10:38am

P.S. to reply above @Margaret ... While you'll want to narrate your query, do post your family group sheet as an attachment to the query. Others will really appreciate knowing the specific records you've found (from the citations). They's also appreciate the organization of the family information we find in a family group sheet.