Monday, May 14, 2012
Ancestry #3
OK so I looked up my grandma on my mom's side of the family. This has been the hilight of my day. First of all I found out my grandma spelled her name two different ways. It was interesting how you could pull up information from different census. In visiting with my coworker, I found out they only make census info like what I found available every so many years. I found out my garndma and her family live in Spring Valley,SD in 1910. Her father's birthplace was Germany and mother's was New York. In 1930 she lived in Lead, SD. My mom graduated from Lead HS in 1936. So now that all makes sense. I never knew my grandfather was eight years older than grandma and that they had their first child together when she was only 14. My mom was born when grandma was 16. I'm talking about this because I wasn't aware of all this information before. I made many more observations when looking up my grandfather. It will be interesting to find info about my dad's side of the family because I never met my grandparents on his side of the family.
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Yes, isn't it something the puzzle pieces you can put together when researching in Ancestry? As for spellings, your grandma probably spelled her name one way, but census takers may have misspelled it or the person who transcribed the census handwriting may have misspelled it. Lots of room for error! But that shows that you need to consider variant spellings when searching. Thanks for the comments.
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