I've been working on my family tree for a couple of years now and haven't gotten very far. The interviews I've done with family members have made it abundantly clear that no one ever asked questions.
I [finally] have a mimeograph of my grandfather's "delayed certificate of birth registration" which confirms only what I've already known: his mother's name. Although I now know her year of birth and birthplace, I've been thrown off the trail by the fact that Maggie listed her husband's name as "Douglas."
Well, she should know what her husband's name was, right? Well on Grandpop's social security number application, he lists his father's name as "Fred." Fred Douglas.
So, who do I believe?
*shrugs*
I guess I'm going to have to drive out to Podunk to find a marriage record or some graves or something. No other [live] decendants on my maternal side really ever communicate much with other Maggie & Fred/Douglas decendants, and I'm sure there are a few. Maggie's nieces and nephews have all bit the dust recently and I'm sure their kids don't know shit, although if I'm really sneaky, I may be able to wrangle some photos out of them. I'm dying to know what Maggie looked like.
Field trip!
Posted by Tiffany at April 30, 2005 10:13 AMMy mom is heavily into geneology which is great because that'll be less research for ME to do whenever I get interested in it.
She's stumbled upon all kinds of interesting things - illigitmate children, disowned relatives and misspellings of names that stuck. For instance she's related to some "Putmans" and also found she was related to some "Putnams" whose name was misspelled at some point but kept that way. Her sister - my aunt Delores - insists we are NOT related to ANY Putnams. "It's ALWAYS spelled P U T M A N!" My mom couldn't explain to her that sometimes names were misspelled and left that way. My mom's very thorough in her research and she's 100% sure of what she found but my old aunt - who knows nothing about geneology research - refuses to accept it. The old bitch.
Posted by: Amanda at May 3, 2005 01:17 PM