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::*More records were created around a person's death | ::*More records were created around a person's death | ||
::*Death related records usually give birth and marriage information | ::*Death related records usually give birth and marriage information, clues leading to parents | ||
::*Death certificates ask for names of parents | ::*Later records typically provide more information and clues | ||
::*Obituaries usually identify the parents | ::*[[User:{{PAGENAME}}#Death|Death certificates]] ask for names of parents | ||
::*[[User:{{PAGENAME}}#Obituaries|Obituaries]] usually identify the parents | |||
{{Tip|Search marriage records for your ancestor}} | {{Tip|Search marriage records for your ancestor}} | ||
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Here are a few tips for learning the names of a person's parents:
| Tip: Check death related records of your ancestor first |
- Why?
- More records were created around a person's death
- Death related records usually give birth and marriage information, clues leading to parents
- Later records typically provide more information and clues
- Death certificates ask for names of parents
- Obituaries usually identify the parents
| Tip: Search marriage records for your ancestor |
- Why?
- Marriage records -- especially those after about 1900 -- often give names of parents
- Marriages were recorded from the time the county was formed
| Tip: Find your ancestor in every census taken while he/she was alive |
- Why:
- Relatives, such as parents, brothers, sisters, an aunt, or uncle, may live with them
- Censuses 1880 and later tell the state or nation of birth for both the father and the mother
- They may live with or near relatives
| Tip: Search records of your ancestor's siblings |
- Why?
- Brothers and sisters had the same parents. Their records may have your answer.
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