I recently discovered the second husband my ancestor had and the children she had with him during the 1840s and early 1850s. I knew her first husband had died, but I had “lost” her after his death in the late 1830s. Her two children with her first husband were immigrants to the United States in the 1850s and are well documented.
One of the things I wanted to discover was when she, her second husband, and their children immigrated. Before I start looking for names in online databases and indexes, I need to do one thing: take a look at the manifests on which her two sons appeared (they immigrated separately) and see if the mother (and her crew with husband number two) are also on the manifest.
They may not be, but it is a good first place to look before I start running through all the variant spellings of Schrader–the second husband’s last name.
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