Could you have that long needed marriage, death, or other tidbit of information tucked away in your files and not realize it? Quite possibly!
For some time, I was trying to find the marriage of James Prall, son of Isaac R. & Ann Bethia [Rhodes] Prall & brother to my gggf Hugh M. Prall. There was some confusion with the census for 1860. An assumption was made that the Ann E. Jones listed in the Prall household was James' wife & that the Anna who followed James on the list was his sister.
It was proven that Ann E. Jones was the sister of James. [marriage record located] Still, James' wife was missing. She just about had to be the Anna from the 1860 census.
I was flipping through one of my miscellaneous Prall material files one day and pulled out a collection of papers on the "Prowell and Prall Familes of New Jersey." There was more Prowell data than Prall. Lo and behold, in a list of marriages was one for James Prall to Anna Maria Hengst on 15 September 1865 at the ME Church in Wrightsville, York Co., PA. I must have had that file for 5 or 6 years and looked through it a half dozen times or more. Yet, there was that elusive marriage staring me in the face!
Every now and then dig through a family file, notebook, folder or whatever and study each record. Maybe that piece of information you've been looking for has been there all along. A new look-see might be all it takes to find what you need!
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