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Have you ever felt that you don't want to work because you had a bad experience the day before?

I had a massively confusing day doing family trees yesterday. Apparently this man named August had two wives. OR there were two men named August born in the same year and the same place.

He married his first wife, Martha, in Chicago in 1883, and married the second one, Anna, in Germany in 1886 and then moved to Chicago with her.

August has at least two children that pre-date his marriage to his first wife.

His first wife had children with the same names as those listed with the second wife, with one or two exceptions.

All of the children born to the second wife were born after her marriage, so that part makes sense.

The son of the second wife, Paul Henry, born in 1891, is listed in California death certificates as the son of the first wife, Martha.

In the end, I had to create them as two separate families, with two fathers, both named August. But I was NOT happy.
amazing all the stuff you learn while researching your ancestors.
4meAndyou · F
@SheCallsMeCrushDaddy They're not even MY ancestors! I am just updating the family because I had the research right there at my fingertips. It would have been a shame if I had not. Half of these people were listed in the system but they weren't put together as a family group. Some of them had no dates, or no spouse listed. I can certainly understand why, NOW.
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4meAndyou · F
@Stereoguy I am all done with mine. I refuse to add people to my tree if I don't have documentation, which usually ends in the late 1700's in the United States. I want everything that I do to be extremely accurate, which is why yesterday bothered me so much.

If I am fortunate, I can link my extremely well researched lines into lines created by other people. Sometimes I have no idea how they obtained their information, but I don't discount it.

According to my tree, my great-grandmother, Ida Mae, had an excellent blood line. She was distantly related to FOUR of our Pilgrims...Francis Cook and his wife Hester Mayhieu, and Stephen Hopkins and his wife Elizabeth. The respective families had a son and a daughter, and my great-grandmother's like comes from those children, who married.
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4meAndyou · F
@Stereoguy Uh oh. I am quite sure she was NOT a witch. On my son's paternal side, there was a judge from Salem who was one of those involved in the witch trials. Most people today believe that the "Salem" of that time was just the present town of Salem, when in fact Salem in those days was huge, and stretched all the way north to present day Dedham.

 
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