Have you looked for a Henry Williams etc in the next census from when you have the daughters listed? My guess is you will find at least one or two of those men with wives of the names you are looking for - comparing birth years on the wives may help. If you do find them you can start looking for marriage records. And you can always look for marriage records of Henry Williams m. to ? Jones in the area and see what you come up with.
Usually by the time I look for all the permutations I have really narrowed down the "first name unknowns" for a marriage. On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, magnoliasouth <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a perplexing problem for me and I'm never sure the best way to do > this. > > For the example, I have an obituary that lists surviving daughters. Their > names are not the daughter names, but their husbands' names. Take this > example. > > Obituary for James Jones > > James Jones died.... daughters surviving are Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Thomas > Johnson and Mrs. Henry Williams. > > Now the Census (way back when the girls were younger) says: > Jones, James (head of household) > " , Betsey (wife) > " , Mary (daughter) > " , Virginia (daughter) > " , Winnifred (daughter) > > So I know that Mary Jones, Virginia Jones and Winnifred Jones are all > daughters of James Jones, but now I have a list of 3 daughters in the > obituary and I'm uncertain who is married to who. For that matter, maybe > there was another fourth daughter born later and Mary or Virginia or > Winnifred died before James did. Who knows? All I know is that I have six > different daughter names. > > How do you all enter this in Legacy? Do you list James' Census daughters > as daughters AND the Obit daughters as daughters then merge them when you > know more? Or do you only make notes in the Census daughters? Or something > else? > > Thanks in advance for sharing your way of doing it, > > Cindy > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
