[ SECRET POST #2321 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2321 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Research is making me want to cry.

[akacat]

How about something like...

The main character runs across a census record of the daughter, aged somewhere between 16-25, occupation teacher. This establishes that the daughter survived.

School board records show that the teacher resigned when she married Mr Whomever. (The family of the head of the school board may have given the hand-written records to either the local historical society, or the local library.)

Or if you're trying to trace backwards -- maybe the daughter's maiden name became a traditional first or middle name among her descendants. There may even be some male descendants who are named after her father that way -- his first name, his last name, current family last name.

Re: Research is making me want to cry.

[inkdust]

Wow, that school board stuff might actually work. I've had my character at the library to find the lack of death record. The 1900 census would work for that, showing occupation teacher. The problem has been that I'm trying to trace forward, not backward. But that could work.

I wanted two changes in last name from ghost to main character, but if the second change happened around 1926, I just found a site where you can search for brides from that time (as I hoped I would find), so it's conceivable that I could have my main character do that. It was the original one that I wasn't finding any kind of "search by maiden name" option.