I had this problem recently with the daughters being listed as Mrs. John Smith. Since they all lie about their age in the census, I don't know if I found a new daughter or one that I have already. I also run into the problem that if children were born between 1881 and 1900 they could have married and moved out of the household. That missing 1890 census has been a major problem for me.
I temporarily list them as Mrs. John Smith or wife of John Smith. Usually after a little more research when I find her obituary or other supporting document, it solves the problem. Recently I could not find information when a husband's obituary listed his wife's name as Mrs. [his first and last name]. I never could find an obituary for the wife so she's either still alive or did not have one. I like when obituaries will list the daughters names in parenthesis with her married name. I've often run into the same situation where I have more daughters than the parents claim to have had so I know I have duplicates. Doing searches for newspaper weddings have been a big help for me. They often list sibling and parent names as participants. Ancestry.com doesn't have a lot of newspapers for the area I'm researching so I subscribe to digital newspaper access through the newspaper websites myself. A one-month subscription was about $20 and included 500 downloads. I never used that much, but it gave me more than I could ask for in solving relationship issues plus gave me clues to where they were buried. This lead me to cemetery websites that had more information about the person and their families online. Once you are certain you have duplicate daughters you can merge them. I wouldn't do it unless you have absolute proof they are the same person. If the husband was a veteran, he may be buried in one of the national cemeteries and those records are available online at the VA website. Arlington National Cemetery has photos of most of the graves and information about birth (if available), death and burial dates for the veteran and wife. I've found the ANC website very helpful when I couldn't find a wife's name. I've even found divorced wives buried with their ex. Bill Boswell From: magnoliasouth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 4:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How do you all handle Mrs. Husband with known daughter names? 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
