[Dixielandjazz] NEWS FLASH - Jelly Roll's Birth Year on the Mexican Visa

[Mike Meddings]

Hello all,

The Jelly Roll Morton website has been updated with the following NEWS FLASH 
item :

"Jelly Roll's Birth Year on the Mexican Visa"

Jelly Roll Morton's Mexican Visa (dated 7th October 1921) was issued as one 
sheet of paper, measuring 6" x 5", with the details typed and hand-written 
in English on the front, and with dates of validity of the Visa (7th October 
1921 to 7th October 1922) typed and hand-written by a Mexican consulate 
official on the Spanish side.   The photograph on the English side of the 
Visa was pasted over an area where Jelly Roll had written his year of birth. 
. . .

For more details of this article, written by Peter Hanley and verified by 
Larry Gushee, and for further updates to the "Genealogy" page please follow 
the links from the UPDATED BOX at:

http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/index.html

Hope you enjoy.   Best wishes.

Mike

http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/index.html 



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