I actually found a burial record that had someone as the illegitimate daughter of a couple in my family. Which is weird, because they were totally married before she was born. But not in the Catholic church, so my mom and I theorized that she wasn't recognized as legitimate because the marriage wasn't recognized.
Especially for women it's great because there's all that maiden name info right there!
That's a great thing, it helped me out so often to make sure they were really the kids of that person. So many Maries! But with the maiden name, you can be more sure about it.
I tend to only trace blood relations and their spouses, but all blood relatives I can so, for example, I've traced all seven of Hubby's 5x great grandfather's kids and who they married and their kids and grandkids etc even though it's hundreds of people and they're only tangentially related once you get to their descendants living today.
So many different stories to learn about! I don't even know these people and I feel bad when something sad happened to them.
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Date: 2016-04-03 02:54 am (UTC)Especially for women it's great because there's all that maiden name info right there!
That's a great thing, it helped me out so often to make sure they were really the kids of that person. So many Maries! But with the maiden name, you can be more sure about it.
I tend to only trace blood relations and their spouses, but all blood relatives I can so, for example, I've traced all seven of Hubby's 5x great grandfather's kids and who they married and their kids and grandkids etc even though it's hundreds of people and they're only tangentially related once you get to their descendants living today.
So many different stories to learn about! I don't even know these people and I feel bad when something sad happened to them.