What Grinds Your Gears? :)

*IndigoErth* · 07-20-2016, 11:56 PM

I miss being able to be a normal night owl and pull all nighters now and then. (Not that I'm not still up at almost 1am now.) Did Monday, wasn't in bed until 8:30am and had a three hour nap.

Taking another go at the genealogy research, so that's what had me up.

Which comes to a continuing grind... I hate how women's maiden names were so easily discarded, making such research harder than it should have to be.

'Course, to be fair, for two major roadblocks I do happen to know (supposedly) the maiden names of... but they must have just beamed here from outer space at some point (since I can't even just find a birth certificate or anything else beyond very limited info) and must have hidden form the census takers. *sigh*

One of them last night I pieced together some info on people she was connected to (and interestingly kind of alters the story we knew of), but they aren't relatives (which was known)... but can I find any hints about her actual parents or any anyone past her? Of course not. She's always been a dead end so far, but eesh. I mean, come on, where is at least the birth certificate/info. I swear, she must have just beamed down on a space ship... Or portal from another time? Something. I know the paper trail ends at some point in history, but not this soon.

It's tough because it was always said she was "adopted" by this family/couple I found info on, however based on census info it looks like she was actually working for them as a servant at age 15. And other clues have me believing they kept in contact and the claimed "adoption" may have simply been more of a "like a daughter to them" sort of thing. (I'm not seeing where this couple ever had any kids of their own.) BUT... I haven't a clue if her real parents were alive or dead at the time; if she was actually an orphan or not.

Fun trying to hunt this stuff down, but simultaneously frustrating.

07-20-2016, 11:56 PM	#11
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	I miss being able to be a normal night owl and pull all nighters now and then. (Not that I'm not still up at almost 1am now.) Did Monday, wasn't in bed until 8:30am and had a three hour nap. Taking another go at the genealogy research, so that's what had me up. Which comes to a continuing grind... I hate how women's maiden names were so easily discarded, making such research harder than it should have to be. 'Course, to be fair, for two major roadblocks I do happen to know (supposedly) the maiden names of... but they must have just beamed here from outer space at some point (since I can't even just find a birth certificate or anything else beyond very limited info) and must have hidden form the census takers. sigh One of them last night I pieced together some info on people she was connected to (and interestingly kind of alters the story we knew of), but they aren't relatives (which was known)... but can I find any hints about her actual parents or any anyone past her? Of course not. She's always been a dead end so far, but eesh. I mean, come on, where is at least the birth certificate/info. I swear, she must have just beamed down on a space ship... Or portal from another time? Something. I know the paper trail ends at some point in history, but not this soon. It's tough because it was always said she was "adopted" by this family/couple I found info on, however based on census info it looks like she was actually working for them as a servant at age 15. And other clues have me believing they kept in contact and the claimed "adoption" may have simply been more of a "like a daughter to them" sort of thing. (I'm not seeing where this couple ever had any kids of their own.) BUT... I haven't a clue if her real parents were alive or dead at the time; if she was actually an orphan or not. Fun trying to hunt this stuff down, but simultaneously frustrating. Last edited by IndigoErth; 07-21-2016 at 12:13 AM.