Maude Nificent on Nostr: ida was born a morgan, but lived with harrisons, and the names were used ...

ida was born a morgan, but lived with harrisons, and the names were used interchangeably e.g. on school records. but also, in many other families, children have been passed off as siblings and so on (society’s rules ‘n’ all that). if your family was located in a specific area, you might be able to look under <first name + related family name>?

and naturally birth dates are sometimes “adjusted” because the honeymoon preceded the marriage.

sometimes we inherit misinformation - for ages i was looking for an older/childless couple ida had lived with, but later discovered the people who took her in already had eleven living children 🙄

i’m privileged to have access to so much history. in part this is cos we bred like rabbits (before myxo) and so there are a lot of people who each had pertinent snippets of info
more likely to be missing wedding certificates than birth certs 😆