tanteva
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Oh, yes! I'd love to know that too! Such a crazy story.
one thing you would like to know
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HavaDrPepper
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I've had to think about this for awhile. And, I finally thought of something specific that I would really like to know.
1. Did my great-grandmother ever divorce my great-grandfather before running away with a man she claimed she was married to when she died several years later? I'm of the opinion that there was no divorce since he lists his marital status as "Widowed" on the marriage license to his 2nd wife.
2. Why did my great-great-grandfather (father of great-grandmother mentioned above) leave his family in Ohio and move to Virginia. He had been MIA in my genealogy research for a long time and I happened upon a newspaper article that stated after receiving a divorce from his wife in Ohio, he got a marriage license to marry a young lady in Richmond, Virginia. They went on to have 1 daughter of their own. His wife passed away after being married 19 years and he is listed as her husband on the death certificate.
3. What happened next with great-great-grandfather? He was not the provider of information for his wife's death certificate. It was her mother. The census was the following year and I could not find him on the census. So I looked for the daughter who would have been around 16 years old and she was living with her grandmother and uncle (mother's brother) and his wife. No mention of her dad. So the long elusive E.H. Wren has disappeared AGAIN!
All this in a 20 year period from 1900 to 1920 which was before records were standardized in most states.
Otherwise, I would like to know other genealogy information that a cousin and I have never been able to find on the parents of our ancestor (our 3rd great grandfather on the paternal side). We have no idea how they ended up where they did or where they came from originally.
1. Did my great-grandmother ever divorce my great-grandfather before running away with a man she claimed she was married to when she died several years later? I'm of the opinion that there was no divorce since he lists his marital status as "Widowed" on the marriage license to his 2nd wife.
2. Why did my great-great-grandfather (father of great-grandmother mentioned above) leave his family in Ohio and move to Virginia. He had been MIA in my genealogy research for a long time and I happened upon a newspaper article that stated after receiving a divorce from his wife in Ohio, he got a marriage license to marry a young lady in Richmond, Virginia. They went on to have 1 daughter of their own. His wife passed away after being married 19 years and he is listed as her husband on the death certificate.
3. What happened next with great-great-grandfather? He was not the provider of information for his wife's death certificate. It was her mother. The census was the following year and I could not find him on the census. So I looked for the daughter who would have been around 16 years old and she was living with her grandmother and uncle (mother's brother) and his wife. No mention of her dad. So the long elusive E.H. Wren has disappeared AGAIN!
All this in a 20 year period from 1900 to 1920 which was before records were standardized in most states.
Otherwise, I would like to know other genealogy information that a cousin and I have never been able to find on the parents of our ancestor (our 3rd great grandfather on the paternal side). We have no idea how they ended up where they did or where they came from originally.
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I got my first journal when I was eight too! It was a gift from my friend Jessica; she gave me a stuffed brown bear and a floral journal.
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Me too. I think I would just hyperfocus on that.