Mystery Monday: Enumerated Twice in the 1910 Census?
What I enjoy most about Ancestry.com is its intuitive search interface! After locating my great-grandparents –Lewis & Carrie (Blanton) Chappel– in the 1910 Census and adding data from that record...
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Even though I did not find my great-grandparents enumerated as a family the first time I looked for them in the 1920 Census, I just could not dismiss this gut feeling I had that I really needed to...
View ArticleMystery Monday: Using Houston City Directories in search of Lewis Chappel
sing Houston city directories to reconstruct the lives of my great-grandparents in search of Lewis Chappel was an ideal resource for me to use at this stage of my research. I found the U.S. City...
View ArticleMystery Monday: Searching for Lewis Chappel (Part 1)
My mother’s grand-father, Lewis Chappel, has been an enigma in my family research for years now. By the time mom was born, he was already missing in action and no one, not even her grandmother who...
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