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Search Results on Ancestry.....what am I doing wrong?

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I've asked for help and you all have found things that I couldn't---can you fill me in on what I may be doing wrong?
I subscribe to ancestry where they have tons of records avail.

For instance, My aunt, born December 16, 1915 and died September 24, 2001.

She was born in WV and died in GA and buried in WV.

Should be fairly simple, right? Her maiden name was Boreman, marriage name TIGHE and remarried as an older woman w/name MISKEVICH. They lived in Florida and she was in a nursing home in GA at the end of her life.

Not sure why I cant find basic info on ancestry...is it them or me? :oops:
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You don't give us your aunt's first name.

Could this be her family in

1920 Franklin, Marshall, West Virginia

Name Age
Charles W Bowman 33
Iva G Bowman 30
Hild M Bowman 8
Verna Bowman 7
Alverta Bowman 5
Charles Bowman 4
Edwin Bowman 11/12

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Or maybe this one:

1920 Benwood Ward 4, Marshall, West Virginia

Name Age
Thomas Boreman 31
Mary Boreman 28
Catherine Boreman 4
Okey Boreman 2 4/12
Oline Boreman 2 4/12

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SS Death Index:

Kathryn E. Miskevish
SSN: 233-05-4107
Last Residence: 30603 Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States of America
Born: 16 Dec 1915
Last Benefit: 34465 Beverly Hills, Citrus, Florida, United States of America
Died: 24 Sep 2001
State (Year) SSN issued: West Virginia (Before 1951 )
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Mary:

When using search engines, sometimes "LESS IS MORE". Many indexes have typos and misspelled names.

I used "SOUNDEX" on the last name Miskevich along with the death year in the SS Death Index and as you can see Kathryn Miskevish came up.

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that is it, her name was actually eunice catherine boreman (Miskevich) but she went by catherine.

I am going to keep trying till I get it right, I'll try the "less is more" and see what happens.

Thanks for your help.

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1930 Benwood, Marshall, West Virginia

Name Age
Thomas Boreman 41
Mary Boreman 39
Catherine Boreman 14
Okey Boreman 12
Olene Boreman 12
Edward Boreman 9
Nellie Boreman 4 11/12
Kate Calvert 53

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Hi Mary,

for West Virginia records you can try to search also this (free) site:

http://search.labs.familysearch.org/rec ... 956954#p=0

Is this the marriage of Catherine's parents?

Groom name: Thomas Boreman
Bride name: Mary E Furbee
Marrige date: 1915
Marriage place: West Virginia, Marshall
Film number 853817
Digital GS number 4130837
Image number 00429
Source: Conty Records

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Here is another free site for West Virginia Vital Records:

http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx

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Thanks for the links! I haven't found anything on the wvculture site though....I'll keep lookin' :wink:
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