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SNGF - Your Disappeared Ancestors

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:

1)  Sometimes an ancestor or relative just disappears from the records, and we cannot find another record after a certain date. 

2)  Tell us about one or more of your relatives or ancestors who have disappeared and have not been found since a certain date.  Do you have any idea of what might have happened to them?

Here's mine:

First, I can share a blog post I wrote for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks two weeks ago about an ancestor who disappeared: WhatBecame of Robert Hutson of Cherokee County, Georgia?

I wondered how I could locate all the people in my database who have no death fact. I have RootsMagic 10 now and used the search feature, focusing on an event that has a blank death date. I got 4839 matches out of 7462 people. That is not a great statistic! Many of the hits are people who have no surname, mostly women. Another bunch of people are those who are still alive.

I reran it, this time, eliminating those people born after 1930. That brought the number down to 1869. That is still a lot. Glancing through some of the names, most are collateral lines. Next, I added the ancestors of my daughter, which brought up only the people who are color-coded, for a total of 34.

This would be a good project to work on, to at least fill in an “after” date. 


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Comments

  1. I bet if you just focused only on the people who were born in the 1800's in the United States, you could find death dates for all of them.

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