Here are a few tips for learning the names of a person's parents:
- 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
- Why?
- Marriage records often give names of parents
- The records usually exist from the time the county was formed
- 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
- Why?
- Brothers and sisters had the same parents. Their records may have your answer.
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