Genealogy is a wonderful adventure! Hours of research lead to conflicting pieces of evidence that don't fit with the facts that you already have. Pouring through resources online or in a research facility only to find that there's no information on the person/family you are tracking. Then there's the flip-side... Hours of research lead to that elusive piece of evidence that you have been after for years. Pouring through resources online or in a research facility only to find unusually well documented information on a gap in the pedigree chart. Enjoy the ride!

Weekend #2 for Hendricks Civic Theatre's production of A Nice Family Gathering. Show times are 7:30 tonight and tomorrow, 2:30 on Sunday.

The Genealogical Society of Marion County meets at the Crown Hill Cemetery Waiting Station at 1:00 tomorrow. The May presentation covers a discussion of a variety of Genealogy software programs [FTM, Legacy, RootsMagic, etc.] and a general Q&A sessions about genealogy in general. Attendance is free!

Getting back to the opening paragraph: My Crousore-Haught research is maddening! A petition for the appraisal of the value of the estate of Nicholas Crousore, dec'd , from 1815 names his children and the eight children of his late daughter Magdalena [Jacob] Haught, Jacob then married Magdalena's sister Mary.
Census records strongly suggest that Magdalena and Jacob had another son, George, who should be on the list. I can't find any other sources that put his birth late enough to be Mary's son. Then there are two daughters named Magdalena that some researchers have being alive in 1810. That seems doubtful.

The real fun has been determining when Magdalena died and Mary married. 1803 is the estimated birth year for the youngest of the grandchildren named in the 1815 petition. The next "surviving" child was born about 1809. There are three females born 1801-1810 unaccounted for in the 1810 census. So, Mary and Jacob must have married about 1805. Was this Mary's first marriage? Maybe. She would have been about 25 in 1805.

Dealing with people in the pre-1850 census era is the big stumbling block with this line. Many of them died before 1850, so identifying children and spouses is a serious challege!

Just one more thing..... Where's Columbo when you need him?