"Singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote... : : > <snip of lots of good background ... > : > : > Any advice would be deeply appreciated. I've recently been : > requesting death certificates on anyone who made it into the era of : > death certs who I feel is connected and this has helped somewhat but : > in some cases it's left me with even more questions. : > : > Matt Lupo a.k.a. matt at lupo dot com : : Do you have a copy of that pension record? I assume it's a Georgia : pension? If nothing else, you'll find out where she was living when : she applied, and there will be some evidence of her marriage. I do have copies of the pension papers and again, they leave me with more questions as they suggest my g-g-grandmother was still living in Dooly County, in Pinehurst, I believe. From what has filtered down to me via family sources, I think she was estranged from her family, but again, I don't have any direct documentary evidence other than the fact that she doesn't seem to be near any of them. The records also suggest she didn't remarry as she's still listed as Lupo and that she's the widow of my g-g-grandfather. She would have only been in her early 20s when he died, however, and she would have had three children under ten, so I find it odd that she didn't remarry, but I've found no evidence that she did. My main family sources for this information are cousins who are the children of my great-aunt and great-uncle. My grandfather started his family late in life and was already in his 70s when I came along. I remember him as a crotchedy old man who I was somewhat afraid of when younger. I knew his brother, but he lived a long way away from where I did and died about five or six years prior to the time that I started becoming interested in genealogy as did his sister who was more distantly removed from my family than my great-uncle. : The 1870 census is strange and unreliable South of the Mason-Dixon. : No theory to determine who is excluded has yet proven valid in more : than one county. Tax records might help fill in gaps. Yes, I've found the 1870 census to be a mixed blessing at best. As far as I can determine, only one city in Dooly County was polled and it wasn't the one where most of my people were living. I've found a few people with my family name, but can't definitively connect them. I have also checked tax lists but the lists from Dooly are spotty -- there's one from 1851 on which my g-g-g-grandfather is missing even though I'm pretty sure that's where he was living at the time. Matt Lupo -- G. M. Lupo a.k.a. matt at lupo dot com Up on the hill, they think I'm okay Or so they say... "G. M. Lupo" <deaconblues@steelyspam.org>