This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Griffin / Lytle Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADI/84.125.3.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for Washington Andrew Griffin that married Angeline Lytle that is now buried in Forrest City AR, Angeline is buried in De Valls Bluff AR they are my great grandparents and no one can tell me anything about them do you have any information on where he came form or where I can find any help on them????

I don't know how common the Lytle name is so I have no idea if this may be of any use to you. My 2-great uncle John A. Spear married a Lettie J. Lytle in Thomas County, Georgia, on 17 March 1867. I believe that John A. Spear would have been 1/4 Creek on his mother's side, and I'm not certain... but I suspect Indian ancestry of some sort in his father, Allen Spear, as well. Of the Lytles, I have no information as to Indian ancestry, but in those days those who had it tended to stick together in their socializing and marriages. Griffin is a very common name in those parts. But what you really need to do is to find your grandparents in census records. That should give you a good idea where they AND their parents were born, though it is very possible that they grew up at points usually further south or west than wherever they were born. Sometimes those travels are reflected in the birthplaces of children, which are also shown in censuses taken 1850 and after if I recall correctly. Another source worth attempting to find, is your grandparents' death certificates. The state and/or county where they died should have them on file, starting at different dates in different states, but probably in most states by the 1920s. The contents of death certificates and of census records as well, may not be absolutely accurate, but they ae a lot closer to accurate than nothing. <G> There is also a problem, in my experience, that early death certificates often were very incompletely filled out, and the unfilled blanks are where the information you are seeking should be... but isn't. Death certificates are filed where one dies, which is not necessarily where they are buried. If you can't find a birth certificate you can use the date on their grave stones to know where to search in local newspaper morgues. Obituaries were scarcer and less informative back in the 1920s and before, but if you can find one it usually names the place of death. Try those things till you hit paydirt, and then keep looking. Various records may state slightly different facts. Once census may say one thing, and another 10 or 20 years later, might say another thing altogether. If you cover all possible bases you may know quite a bit more than from looking till you find one record, and stopping at that point. Good luck. Happy hunting... RW skynet@redriverok.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Griffin / Lytle >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADI/84.125.3.1 > >Message Board Post: > >I am looking for Washington Andrew Griffin that married Angeline Lytle that is now buried in Forrest City AR, Angeline is buried in De Valls Bluff AR they are my great grandparents and no one can tell me anything about them do you have any information on where he came form or where I can find any help on them???? > >