Posts in January 14, 2016

There are a variety of places one can obtain evidence of variant names for an ancestor. Court documents are one excellent place as a judge will want to know why a person’s name appears differently on different records. This relative’s names were similar: John M. Habben and John M. Hobben, but the judge still wanted it addressed. Sometimes name variants are not so close. It pays to read all that text in those legal documents.