Did you ancestor have two spouses instead of one? Did your ancestor have three children instead of two? Have you searched completely and thoroughly? Finding a civil record of an ancestor’s birth suggests that there might be some church record of the event as well (the same is true for a marriage). Finding one deed for an ancestor should make you wonder if there could be more.
Always be asking yourself: what more could there be?
One response
it complicates matters if the spouses had the same first names.