My 3rd great-great-grandmother’s sister had a baby a few years before that same sister married her husband in the 1860s. Court records from the estate of the baby’s grandfather (the father of the sisters) make it clear that the grandparents raised the baby–not the baby’s father nor the baby’s mother and her subsequent husband. The child grew to adulthood and have children of her own.
One researcher decided to change the child’s date of birth, the couple’s date of marriage, and the baby’s last name in order to make it appear to be the husband’s child.
Report what you find, but don’t change what you locate in order to present a different story from the reality.
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I found out that the marriage record in my g grandmother obit was incorrect when I ordered the marriage record itself. She had a 6 month healthy baby. I am not critizing(sp-can never spell this word) my g grandmother at all. However, it caused a big stir in the family when I told my mother, she told me I was wrong. I told her the document did not lie. Since then, 20 years later, she has come around to it, LOL. My little Prim and Proper g grandma got found out. Even my grandmother did not know as she was the one who wrote the obit and used the date her mother had given her as her marriage date. You would have to had known my g grandmother, from the stories from grandmother told about her, LOL. I love those stories, they bring her alive to me in ways that I did not know her or my g grandfather, but I dearly loved them both, and they loved me.