Post by andrea on Mar 7, 2017 14:08:00 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
I am super late to this and therefore trying to collect my documents as quickly as possible. While most of my research has been fairly straight-forward, I am missing two important documents:
-My great great grandmother Catherine is my Luxembourgish ancestor, and I am having a bit of difficulty finding her marriage certificate in Indiana. Her husband is listed on her death certificate (with a very incorrect first name), and I can also find census records with various name misspellings for the two of them.
-The second document is her daughter's birth certificate. Apparently Indiana did not start issuing them until 3 years after she was born, and the county she lived in has no record of her birth. Once again, she appears in the census records under a very wild misspelling of her surname.
I will continue to search for both, but I wondered if anyone else had experience with similar missing documents. What did you use instead? Also, if you were able to use census records, where did you get them? (Is there an official source? Do they need to be certified?)
Thanks!
I am super late to this and therefore trying to collect my documents as quickly as possible. While most of my research has been fairly straight-forward, I am missing two important documents:
-My great great grandmother Catherine is my Luxembourgish ancestor, and I am having a bit of difficulty finding her marriage certificate in Indiana. Her husband is listed on her death certificate (with a very incorrect first name), and I can also find census records with various name misspellings for the two of them.
-The second document is her daughter's birth certificate. Apparently Indiana did not start issuing them until 3 years after she was born, and the county she lived in has no record of her birth. Once again, she appears in the census records under a very wild misspelling of her surname.
I will continue to search for both, but I wondered if anyone else had experience with similar missing documents. What did you use instead? Also, if you were able to use census records, where did you get them? (Is there an official source? Do they need to be certified?)
Thanks!
