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Subject: Re: [MURPHY-ROOTS] Confused
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:15:57 EST

In a message dated 11/17/2003 10:34:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

> I think that they spelled it how it sounded and some just added that extra
> little mark to make it look fancy.

I had a similar problem with a 'brick wall' ancestor, except I knew she did
exist as I had met her myself, she being 96 and I about 10 when she died. But
find her marriage record to my grgrandfather, I could not. Finally looked for
all of the marriages in IL for J C Laughlin with a Josephine. And there it was
SHIEPE instead of SHUPE. So with some ancestors, male, the female half of the
marriage can be the one that proves it happened! And I am trying to improve my
own handwriting.

Madora

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