Posts in August 16, 2025

A researcher had an ancestor who died young, leaving behind a wife and a child. The wife married again and had another child with her second husband. The researcher wanted to learn more about the ancestor who died young. Totally understandable. They had refused to search the wife’s second husband and knew little about her life after her first husband died. While there’s no guarantee that records on the wife after her second marriage will provide clues about her first husband, it is a possibility. While there’s no guarantee that a record on the second husband will provide a direct or indirect clue about the first husband, it’s a possibilty. Witnesses on those records, details on property owned, or other references created well after the husband of interest […]