I just enter all the daughters and enter three married names for them,
I remove a name as I find the right husband <G> It took me nearly 5
years to find my greatgrandmothers sisters, I did have towns for them
and would search Mary (Kinsey, Keefer, Cosser) The Mary was Kinsey and
fairly easy to find the Keefer was a BEAR! <G>
Eliz
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:38 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
>
>
>
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