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From: Eric Borreson <>
Subject: Re: ROOTS-L Digest V97 #796
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:48:50 -0500


Start with the marriage certificate. Look at the names of the witnesses.
Sometimes they are relatives, often brothers or sisters. Compare those names
to the names of the two families. Look for baptism records and the sponsors.
Same idea. Look for marriage records of the possible siblings and see if he
ever was a best man. Look for probate records for other members of the
family and see if there is any mention of heirs that you know of. Look for
living descendents in the area and see if anyone there knows anything. If
all else fails, assume you are descended from the ones with money and hope
for an inheritance <g>.


>From: Pat Wheeler
>Subject: Query
>
>Hi: I am a newcomer to your lists and hope someone can suggest some ideas
>to solve my search problem. Currently searching my fathers
>family--beginnings in Warwickshire/Lancashire England. His mother was fairly
>straightforward but his father has got me baffled. Charles Henry Wood, born
>circa 1868, married Dec 5,1896, died of TB Nov 1919 in London. I have
>marriage and death certificates.
>Heres my problem--they are two Wood families that could be Charles family
>based on the information I have. Is there anything that I haven't thought of
>to prove which one is the correct family? Family one and two are very
>similar in ages and location, occupations, names of siblings follow a
>pattern etc. The only difference--one family appears tobe financially better
>off.
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>

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