Posts in April 8, 2023

Found a reference to a cousin in the obituary of her father. The notice gave her name and residence at the time of her father’s death. I thought finding her would be easy after that. It was not. Turned out that the marriage was a short-term one and that immediately afterwards she moved several states away and took back a previous last name. Obituaries on other family members suggested a different last name for the cousin and it took some time to figure out what happened after her father died. Remember that an obituary, like most records, is a snapshot taken at one point in time. Some of the details of the person’s life may have changed shortly after the record was created.