https://ldsblogs.com/22956/using-census-family-history-research Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://ldsblogs.com/22956/using-census-family-history-research#comment-49906 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:32:53 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=22956#comment-49906 Thank you for sharing this story. I have found that sometimes just one census record tells a story. I found a family in which the father had immigrated to the US 5 years before his wife and children, that’s a story of struggle.

]]> https://ldsblogs.com/22956/using-census-family-history-research#comment-42679 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:17:07 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=22956#comment-42679 I love the stories in census records. I was following one ancestor and found she had two children out of wedlock who were raised by their father. In one census, after the boys went to their dad, she moved in with her brother, who had a live-in housekeeper. The housekeeper had a young daughter. The next census showed, to my surprise, that he’d married the housekeeper and adopted the daughter. I wondered how my ancestor felt about that. Then my ancestor disappeared from the census records, so I went looking for a death certificate. That led me to discover that somehow she wound up back where she was born, paralyzed, died, was buried by her neighbors, and a year later, someone in town got around to getting her death certificate. It was like reading a novel, following her through those census records.

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