Posts in November 13, 2015

Sometimes one has to realize when it’s time to refocus and move in a different research direction. I’m about there on the second husband of an ancestor whose first husband (my ancestor) died in late 1855 in Warsaw, Illinois. She and the second husband were married by May of 1856 and they were parted by the end of that month when he left for parts unknown. All I know is George’s name and that he was old enough to serve as a guardian/administrator of an estate in May of 1856. That’s it. And the one signature I have of him looks to be in German script. And his name is written as Fendler once in the record instead of Fennan. It still may be time to really think […]