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This exert is in memory of my grandmother who started me on the path of genealogy: Pauline Hambrick Harrison.
"I started my search for the Rovney Family in Minneapolis MN. I was using the 1927 City Directory, I did not find them.
I then went to the 1928 City Directory where I found Julia Rovney. She lived at 647 Quincy St., and worked as a helper at the Hotel Dykman. Joseph Rovney was not listed. I checked the Grant surname to see if julia was living with a member of the Grant family. None were listed at that address.
I checked 1929 and 1930 City Directories, but Julia did not show up in either one. I checked to see if she had started using her maiden name again, but did not find her as Julia Grant.
I then went to the 1920 Census and found George Rovney and family. They lived in Redwood County, MN, Paxton Township, on the Lower Sioux Agency Reservation. George and Annie were both born in Bohemia, and their parents were also born in Bohemia. Joseph Rovney was 23 years old in 1920. He was born in Ohio, and he was a brakeman on a railroad. He must have been a traveling man.
I did not find the family in 1910, because the 1910 census was not indexed for MN.
I found them in Barron County, Wisconsin in 1900. On this census we see that George Rovney came to the US in 1884, and Annie Pilar Rovney came in 1870. They married in the US. I did not find a marriage record for them.
George was born in April of 1866 in Bohemia, and Annie was born in August of 1864 in Bohemia. Both sets of parents were also born in Bohemia. Bohemia is now a part of Czechoslovakia.
They live on a farm, and George is buying it, however, it is mortgaged.
George's mother is living with them. Her name is Katie. She came to the US at the same time as her son, George. They probably came with other members of the family, but I could not find any other Rovney records.
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