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Apr 10, 07, 22:43 #19
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:
census.gov/prod/2000pubs/cff-2.pdf
Good luck, I hope you find her.
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