Ancestry/Genealogy

BigmanPigman

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1. My mom has been researching our family for over 12 years

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 12:25 AM

Jun 2018

and she got a lot of info from the Mormon Church (I don't know why they have so much). We know with 100% accuracy about her side but the surprises came with my dad's side when she did one of those DNA kits and she has been kept busy ever since. She found out that my great, great.....grandmother was on the ship that came here after the Mayflower, called the Fortune, in 1621. I also found out I am not American Indian at all (I grew up thinking I was 1/16th). There is also a grave from the 1700s in the tiny little town I grew up in outside of Phila. We all live in CA now so I can't see it. If she keeps this up she is going to trace us back to an unknown home sapien living in the caves in France.

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When researching in old newspapers, don't count on the first name being right. [View all] shraby Jun 2018 OP

My mom has been researching our family for over 12 years BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #1

The Mormons have a lot of information murielm99 Jun 2018 #3

That's true radical noodle Jun 2018 #8

I've a question yonder Jun 2018 #2

Check at your local county courthouse. What's at the state is also kept there. shraby Jun 2018 #4

In this state, Wisconsin, the marriage records are also kept at the state level shraby Jun 2018 #5

shraby, thanks for your response yonder Jun 2018 #6

In this county, there is an index at the courthouse in the Register of Deeds office - shraby Jun 2018 #7

I think I have a reason why information might be wrong in some of these old death notes/obits The Genealogist Jun 2018 #9

Also the person taking the information for the record may not have spoken the shraby Jul 2018 #11

About the only thing reliable on a death certificate is the date..... LeftInTX Jul 2018 #10