Hello my name is Lori and I have a brother Todd. I am searching for a women who was my nanny many many years ago. She was the sweetest, loving person. All I can remember is her name is Jenny. My father's name is Richard. We lived in Illinios. Next to a small stream. Please if you know anyone that might be that person send a message to me. loria4321yahoo thank you
My last name is Janczak and we lived in Palitine, Ill. Even if you might know one of her children if she had any? Thank you
Mar 6, 07 [10:55] - Attached on merging: looking for a women named Jenny who was my nanny in Illinois,1970-74
Hello My nme is Lori and my brothers name is Todd. My mother died when I was 3. My father ( Richard ) hired a nanny for us kids form Poland her name was Jenny. I am so grateful for her. She taught me my mother skills and so much more. I would like to thank her. I also would like to see how she did in life and maybe share my life with her also. Please if you know anyone who might be this special person let her know Lori is looking for her and to reply to me!!! Thank You Lori
There is no one for me to ask. I do remember her visiting poland to see her family- even bringing me back an dancing outfit that I still have after all these yrs.
do you think then that she needed so kind of permition to come here. I've lived so many places and everything is so much different then it was. It's so sad so see all the land simply going away.
If she came to the US legally she would have had a passport or other documents. There would be an official record of her stay here, requests for a visa, worker, student or otherwise. If your parents paid social security tax for her or paid for worker's insurance for her, she might be registered for social security in the US.
Try finding her in the personal files or tax records of your family. Look for older income tax forms your parents may have kept, or request them from the IRS. They have a form for requesting older records at their website, but you will have to pay for the copy.
If your parents stored old checks that they may have used to pay her, look thru those. Older people sometime stockpile this kind of stuff so you might get lucky. Their bank may have the checks on microfilm in their archives, but it may take time and money to find them.
Did you have older neighbors that may still be alive now, that you can call or write to ask?
What about a church locally--if she was Catholic, did she attend and would anyone there know her or remember her?
You could try getting the US census data sheet for your family for that time period. As next of kin to head of household or as a person named in the document itself, you can request it for 1970 even though that year is not available for public viewing at this time. You will have to pay for the copy. If Jenny lived with you in your home in 1970, she should be on the form, both first and last name.
Go here to get started. It's a long shot, but worth it, if this is very important to you and all other avenues have failed. Go here and on page one of the PDF file/page, read about "Access to Closed Records", which continues to page 2, where there are addresses and phone numbers:
The most important for you is to find out her first and last name. You call her Jenny... Jenny is not a polish name. Her name could be Janina.
Once you have her real name, you may try to contact polish consulate in Chicago. She had to have a polish passport, which the consulate should have a record of. Again, this will take some time and cost money.
