My cousin Bob presented me with a looseleaf binder and a box containing copies of original documents and newspaper articles. I'm fortunate in that my late uncle married a Mormon. I am a bit of a sloth and somewhat indolent when it comes to the family geneology. How do you go about trying to solve that type of situation? I'm sure it's a very very common problem, I just don't know where to start. There's no one alive today that knows whether he had brothers or sisters, where he came from, etc. That side of the family, to the best of my knowledge, was always dirt poor and living in the woods, so there just seems to be very little to go on. I just have no way to verify that any of the ones I'm looking at are the right ones.īest I can tell, from family history, is they were in the woods, more of less. When I see a census in Kentucky with his name on it, and it lists parents, brothers, sisters, etc, I have no way to know if that's "The" person or not, since the next census form with the same name displays parents and kids too. So when I search for his name in Kentucky, it brings up 100's of people with that name. I have no idea who his parents were, where in Kentucky he was born, or any parents or brothers or sisters he may have had. I know he was born in Kentucky and lived and died in Virginia. For example, I have my great grandfathers name, with his middle initial. How do you go about finding people when you don't know anything but a name. I need some guidance from those that know how to do all this.
Okay, from having easy days and getting through all of that, now on to the hard part, the other side of my family.
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