Theme Song: Don’t Run So Fast by Rahsaan Patterson
I am beginning to hate Ancestry.com.
Sunday I searched and I was unable to find anything so today I decided to switch and use Heritage Quest Online which yielded a better result. With Heritage Quest I was able to do a search in 1900 in Perry County, Alabama. I don’ t know which last name is correct: Ann Ivery or Ann Ivey. The information in 1910 had Ann Ivery at 60 years old which would have made her birth year 1850 something. In 1900 it had Ann Ivey as 35. The only thing that lets me know that the correct family is my grandmother Pearl. In 1920 Pearl was widowed at 36 and living in Bibb County, AL. In 1910 she was 26 and living in Perry County, AL with her husband (Edward Griffin), her children and her mother. In 1900 she is 15 years old and they are in Perry. I discovered a sister named Ginnie (or Gennie, Jenny, Jinny…) and she is 22.
I have to go by the age of the children and not the floating age of the parent and the variants of Ivey/Ivery that pops up. I know I am going to have a problem finding them in the 1890 census simply because a good portion of the census that year was destroyed.
(sigh)
So… it also has Ann as being single but in 1910 information was given that she was widowed. In 1900 she was the mother of 5 children but only two of them were still living. I wonder if I can find out what happened to Ginnie. I wonder if she was dead by 1910 or not.
A friend from H&G department just came downstairs to help me decipher some scribbles on the census schedule. She said that she has a handout from Tony Burroughs that he gave when he did a talk on African American genealogy. Burroughs is an African American that has done two of his family lines back seven generations. I don’t know if I can get that far back (or even have the energy to search that far back) but if I can just get to 1870 for at least two family lines I’ll be so happy.
