Where or where has the missing child gone? This is often a question when searching for children of a core group.
So how do you find them?
- Search obituaries—do the parents or siblings obituaries give any hints to a married last name or location
- Search death certificates—death certificates list the parents’ names and a maiden name for women. These are great for providing clues. I found an aunt this way. No one knew what happened but by broadening the search and putting in her maiden name in the keyword area, I was able to find her death certificate.
- Look at cluster genealogy—searching larger clusters in the family nucleus or in the area. Last week I shared about intermarrying and how that led to finding the missing daughters. Did you have families that intermarried with one another?
- Check Family Bibles—often marriages are listed in the family bible.
- Check marriage certificates—marriage licenses will provide you with the name of who the family member married.
- Search land records—did the father deed or sell land to his daughter and her husband.
- Search family histories—older published family histories may lend a clue of who they married or where they moved. From there you can search census records for more information.
How have you found missing children in genealogy records?
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