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From: Jon P Czarowitz <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Optional Help Needed
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:53:15 -0700 (PDT)


So far I haven't found them listed anywhere else. The marriage of the parents is recorded. I have both birth dates of the Father and Mother and they are buried together within just a few years of each other. She is listed in his will as living.
They were noted for intermarriage with cousins and this happens thru many generations and use one of the surnames as a middle name for the children.
These "children" or "siblings" are not on the census with them. I have to think they are being cared for by the family, but their parents are no longer in the picture.
I have no birth dates or other info and feel they were close to adult age when taken in.
I'm glad RM 4 gives you so many options for listing relationships. The Father and Mother may have already provided for them as grown adults and this half brother just included them out of love. The "HALF" may have been the caring with the difference noted.
At a time when the census only used numbers, your suggestion is almost impossible.

I don't even know if they had a relationship with his parents. They were not in his Father's will probate.

Jon P Czarowitz

CCUSA National Genealogist

TX - RootsMagic Users Network

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--- On Wed, 5/27/09, John Carruthers <> wrote:

From: John Carruthers <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Optional Help Needed
To:
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 3:20 PM

I would find the father in every census during his lifetime. This should
show the wife's christian name at the time of the census. It should also
show the growth of the family, including the natural siblings and the
half-siblings. That will at least give you a time frame as to whether the
half-siblings were born before or after the real siblings.
I wouldn't discount the possibility that the half-siblings were, in fact,
adopted, or just taken in.
Bracky

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jon P Czarowitz <> wrote:

> I have the probate record of a man who had several sons and daughters. In
> it the will is given in full. The puzzling fact is he gives $100 to his Half
> Brother (named) and his 2 Half sisters (both named).
> The problem is I don't have a record of them being the children of his
> Father and Mother's marriage or of either by another marriage.
> Question: How would I list them and how do I find their natural parents???
>
> Jon P Czarowitz
>
> CCUSA National Genealogist
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> TX - RootsMagic Users Network
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> New RootsMagic 4  http://www.rootsmagic.com/
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