How to make a connection between female ancestor and female with same name?

Question

I have the maiden name of an ancestor. I found the same name and spelling on an ancestor search site listed with her parents and siblings. She was the only one listed that had the first name spelled the same as the ancestor. She is my husband's ancestor. I do not know the country where she was born. How can I prove (or disprove) that they are the same person?

The age is a good match also.

Answer 1

Hey Quizkid,

Sounds like you are really into the thick of the genealogy of your husband. So, my assumption is that you are not a beginner.

Female connections are the most difficult, for me too! You need the Parents Marriage, and her Birth. Census would help, showing her in the hose with the parents. That gives you a solid footing to go forward with her to the marriage of her husband - you need a marriage certificate or record. That would tie her to her husband. Then any children they have would list her birth location and date of birth in their birth certificates. If you had all of that you would be set. Maybe you can find Obituaries of her's depending on how far back you are talking.

Another approach is to go to GENFORUM for the surname, and find someone interested in the same era and name that may have this research already.

It is easy for me to advise, I hope this actually helps. The work is the hard part. Good luck.

Answer 2

You look for other points of references. For instance, if the female ancestor's father's will says "I give my mule and $40 to Anne, who married Edward Evans", that is a clue. If they name the second son after her father and the second daughter after her mother, that is a clue. If you find a marriage record from a church or a civil authority, that is a HUGE clue. If she and her husband are in the same neighborhood on the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census, that is a clue. If they give one of their kids her maiden name as a given name, that's a good clue. If you find a brother, uncle, unmarried sister or parent living with them in later years on the census, you are in hog heaven; there is nothing like seeing "father-in-law" as the relation to head of household to prove a wife's maiden name.

If her name was rare, like "Malinda McCorkle", you can be more generous of your trust than if she was "Polly Jones".

You may never be sure. 2/3rds of most people's dead ends are ladies, for that very reason.

Answer 3

ok, first of all it has not something to do with the soviet union, bulgaria replaced into by no potential area of it, and that i won't be able to imagine of a unmarried us of a that really followed russian very last names in the course of the soviet cases. for lack of an more advantageous observe, that is ridiculous. Bulgaria has its personal set of most suitable names, which could look resembling those russian, yet nonetheless are very diverse and actual recognizable. i mean, russians can tell which one is a non-russian very last call with their eyes closed. i do not recognize why, yet those endings are extra or a lot less difficulty-loose for all slavic international places (operating example, Petra Nemkova is Chech).