Need a fresh look - Need a fresh look - How do I prove it's MY ggrandmother? Looking for Eleanor (Ella) Dorothy Dickinson/Dickenson/Dickerson's parents... WHAT I KNOW: based on death certificate and census info (1880 and on) is that she was born 11/26/1865 in one of three places - (1)Schroon Lake, Essex County, NY, (2), Yonkers, Westchester County, NY, or (3) Benson/Castleton/Rutland, Rutland County, VT. I have found Henry Wm./Amanda Dickerson in the 1870 VT Census listing Ella as a daughter at about the right age. Having posted to mailing lists and sites, others have given me Amanda's maiden name - Fassett, and the fact that these people had 11 children and their names and where they are buried. All wonderful, but I don't know for sure this is MY Ella. I have found Henry/Amanda (Mandy) Dickenson in the 1860 NY Census in Schroon Lake; of course, no Ella- too early. They are listed in the 1850 VT Census living separately in rooming houses. NY doesn't have birth records that early. IF she was Episcopalian, the Yonkers churches/library do not have record of her. The library actually said they lost the microfilm that contained her year. Yonkers officials have no record of birth. Rutland County has not record of her birth. Where else do I look for her early years? Her marriage license in 1894 Chicago gives no parent/birth info. Her death certificate in 1939 W Va. gives no parent info or specific birth info. She was supposed to have been married (prior to 1894) to a Mr. Fuller who died at sea. I do know know where they married; how she got to Chicago; where he died. That marriage license might give info. SHusk DUPUIS, DICKINSON, FETTER, FULLER, WOODRUFF,DOZIER, CLIBBORN