While replacing a wall in my basement, I found a 100-year-old marriage certificate.Submitted by woden_spoon t3_z8bdn8 in mildlyinteresting
shrimpcest t1_iybk2qe wrote
Reply to comment by Busy_Bitch5050 in While replacing a wall in my basement, I found a 100-year-old marriage certificate. by woden_spoon
Solid work!
Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iybl08v wrote
Thank you! Maybe it will help OP, or maybe they've already forgotten about it. But at some point, someone is bound to look up their genealogy from the Evans family and possibly find this post. I figured it would be cool for them to be able to see their ancestors' marriage certificate was found in their old home and is preserved in the walls lol.
woden_spoon OP t1_iybrni2 wrote
Well done! Dorothy Carr was the former homeowner, so this is indeed her parents’ marriage certificate.
Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iybrqkx wrote
YES!!! My work here is done 😁
EDIT: In my excitement, I forgot to thank you for confirming, so: thank you!
woden_spoon OP t1_iybs97o wrote
Here’s an award—you earned it!
Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iybsewr wrote
Thank you very much!
If any of Dorothy's descendants show up with a sledgehammer to retrieve the marriage certificate, I'm denying everything 😂
Gbrusse t1_iybzb5n wrote
What sources do you use? I've been very curious about my own family history
Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iyc0y90 wrote
For this one, I first went to the site that OP used to verify the marriage certificate. Once I had the date, location, names, and ages, I Googled census records from the 1930s and 1940s by including all the information I had in the search. After that, I figured John E Evans may have served in the war, so I Googled for service records and verified from a few sources, one being ancestry.com (no membership needed this time). Then I searched for his gravesite, but I still needed his age at death. I found several candidates on ancestry, but only one perfectly matched his family's names from the census records.
The trick is to stay completely objective. I don't care what I find when I start because I don't want to influence the outcome. Many people fall into this habit and before you know it, we're all related to some famous king or queen lol. Just follow the evidence and go with whichever path is most likely and rational.
Moloshe t1_iybm5rc wrote
this is just something really cute and fun to follow through on, and i especially love that they can find it online now if they want to. at the same time i would be pretty creeped out to find that strangers had researched my genealogy when i simply chose to search my grandmothers name or something, lol
Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iybmnnm wrote
Yeah, I thought about that last part. I only listed the names of the deceased for that reason lol.
Moloshe t1_iybvrdy wrote
very responsible. i applaud your effort, and i was going to do it myself if i hadn't seen your comment tbqh. i may not have done such detailed work!
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