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Gooldy, who runs Ye Old Genealogy Shoppe. She is located in Indiana and
has few books on Mexico, but I love reading her newsletters because she always
has such good advice. In the excerpt below, she is talking about
researching her own and her husband's relatives in some of the Eastern
states. As we find in Mexico, she found that many people in
a community had the same names due to the habit of naming sons after fathers,
uncles, etc. Also, she found that men often married women with the same first
name, as we have found in Mexico. Do we really have the right Jose x,
married to our Maria x, of approximately the same ages, who were from our
locality and not another couple also from there or who moved there? Often after
tedious transcribing and comparisons, I find that I was following the wrong
thread.
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In genealogy
contemporary sources arent yours. They are the sources of your ancestors
available contemporaneously to him.
This is where you
look for the pieces that tell you who he was not just that he
was. Therein lay the stories of these men
or women you call kin. Thank heavens for
the modern resources and the databases that bring an ever clearer picture to you
of your ancestors and therefore, of yourself.
is YOUR John Smith. You are weaving a
tapestry of a mans life. Make sure all
your threads belong to the one that is your ancestor.
man with the same name. I once helped a
lady research a county in
all brothers, who lived at
named because it was the place where the sections of land that the boys had
purchased met. Each one of the four boys
had at least four sons and all of them gave to the boys the names of himself and
his three brothers. Cant you imagine what
it was like when a lady stepped to the door of her cabin and yelled, Gilbert
Percifield, you get over to this cabin right now!
sometimes all five, of them at her doorstep in minutes.
before you yell for anyone! And even then
you are lucky if anyone answers, never mind comes a-running!]
daunting. Their county has had some
record destruction so the marriages are thought not to be complete.
and most of the second generation married.
There were plenty of Gilbert Percifield marriage records in the
courthouse records. The only trouble was
six of them married ladies named
Think that was not a can of worms?
Straightening out that mess was a big job.
did not know which
Percifields that had been married in another county before they moved
there. Finally found that record, but a
lingering doubt will always be there as to whether we really did get the right
Elizabeth!
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Gooldy, who runs Ye Old Genealogy Shoppe. She is located in Indiana and
has few books on Mexico, but I love reading her newsletters because she always
has such good advice. In the excerpt below, she is talking about
researching her own and her husband's relatives in some of the Eastern
states. As we find in Mexico, she found that many people in
a community had the same names due to the habit of naming sons after fathers,
uncles, etc. Also, she found that men often married women with the same first
name, as we have found in Mexico. Do we really have the right Jose x,
married to our Maria x, of approximately the same ages, who were from our
locality and not another couple also from there or who moved there? Often after
tedious transcribing and comparisons, I find that I was following the wrong
thread.
----
In genealogy
contemporary sources arent yours. They are the sources of your ancestors
available contemporaneously to him.
This is where you
look for the pieces that tell you who he was not just that he
was. Therein lay the stories of these men
or women you call kin. Thank heavens for
the modern resources and the databases that bring an ever clearer picture to you
of your ancestors and therefore, of yourself.
is YOUR John Smith. You are weaving a
tapestry of a mans life. Make sure all
your threads belong to the one that is your ancestor.
man with the same name. I once helped a
lady research a county in
all brothers, who lived at
named because it was the place where the sections of land that the boys had
purchased met. Each one of the four boys
had at least four sons and all of them gave to the boys the names of himself and
his three brothers. Cant you imagine what
it was like when a lady stepped to the door of her cabin and yelled, Gilbert
Percifield, you get over to this cabin right now!
sometimes all five, of them at her doorstep in minutes.
before you yell for anyone! And even then
you are lucky if anyone answers, never mind comes a-running!]
daunting. Their county has had some
record destruction so the marriages are thought not to be complete.
and most of the second generation married.
There were plenty of Gilbert Percifield marriage records in the
courthouse records. The only trouble was
six of them married ladies named
Think that was not a can of worms?
Straightening out that mess was a big job.
did not know which
Percifields that had been married in another county before they moved
there. Finally found that record, but a
lingering doubt will always be there as to whether we really did get the right
Elizabeth!