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Subject: Fwd: WHY WE HAVE TROUBLE FINDING OUR ANCESTORS
From: Euzelia
Date: February 24, 2000
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Thought this was interesting enough to pass along.
HOW TRUE~~~~~~~~
JOY
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Subject: WHY WE HAVE TROUBLE FINDING OUR ANCESTORS
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Taken from Roots Web - Review
by Jenny Calvin
My grandmother (born a Burgess), now age 91, has been very
helpful and patient with all my family history questions.
However, doing census searches in between asking her questions
sheds some light on why we have trouble finding those elusive
ancestors.
Armed with a list of her daddy's siblings in random order, I
began my search. Very few of the names matched those on the
census, so I went back to ask her more questions:
"Do you think 'Mary J.' in the census could be your Aunt Mae?"
"I don't know -- her name was Mary, but we always called her
Mae." Score 1!
"Do you think 'Nancy M' could be your Aunt Minnie?"
"Could be. I was named after her." Score?
"Was Uncle Lee's first name Walter? There is a Walter L. in the
census."
"I don't know. I never saw him but once or twice. He lived in
McKinney, Texas." (Information from another researcher showed a
Walter L. in McKinney, Texas.) Score 1!
"I haven't been able to find Sam, Arlene, and John Haley in any
of the censuses."
"Oh! They were my daddy's half-siblings! His second wife was
named Ella, Pappy called her Miss Ella, and she out-lived Pa
Burgess." (They apparently married in the late 1890s and were
never in a census together; Pa Burgess died in January of 1900,
before Ella and the three children were counted in the census
in April; she was 37 years younger than he was, so I never would
have guessed her to be his wife.) Score 3!
"I can't find your Uncle Jack in any census, but there is a
Millard living with your daddy who is listed as his brother."
"Uncle Jack didn't like his name, so he changed it. He moved to
Amarillo, Texas." Score 1!
"In the 1910 census, there is a 5-month-old named Margrette, but
that's how old your sister Ellen should have been."
"Pappy wanted to name her Margrette, but Mama wanted to name her
Ellen Rose. Her name really is Ellen Rose, but Pappy called her
Margrette most of the time, and we all just called her Baby."
(Guess who answered the census-taker's questions?) Score 1!
These are just a few examples. Is it any wonder we can't find
our ancestors? What a blessing it is still to have my
grandparents to ask. Be sure to ask questions of your living
relatives -- when they're gone, so much information is gone
with them.
--
History is made by the famous and the not so famous.
Bud
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