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Position:Home>Genealogy> How can I tell if this is the same woman?Question:I need to find the parents and birthdate of Betsy A Woolard. I know who she was married too and that info is in the last listing of this link: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/f... The two on top are Elisabeth A. G. Woolard and seems to have a very close birthdate to Betsy. How can I tell if it is the same person? Can someone look and tell me what you think? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I need to find the parents and birthdate of Betsy A Woolard. I know who she was married too and that info is in the last listing of this link: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/f... The two on top are Elisabeth A. G. Woolard and seems to have a very close birthdate to Betsy. How can I tell if it is the same person? Can someone look and tell me what you think? www.ancestry.com 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Elizabeth A. G. Woolard Home in 1880: Charleston, Hopkins, Kentucky Age: 11 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1869 Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of Household: Daughter Father's Name: William Father's birthplace: Missouri Mother's Name: Polly Mother's birthplace: Tennessee Occupation: At Home Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age William Woolard-- 49 Polly Woolard-- 49 Nancy H Woolard-- 15 Elizabeth A. G. Woolard --11 Sarah Grysam-- 71 www.familysearch.org Elizabeth A. G. WOOLARD Birth Year <1869> Birthplace KY Age 11 Occupation At Home Marital Status S <Single> Race W <White> Head of Household William WOOLARD Relation Dau <Daughter> Father's Birthplace MO Mother's Birthplace TN Census Place Charleston, Hopkins, Kentucky www.ancestry.com--father of Elizabeth A G: Name: William Woolard Home in 1880: Charleston, Hopkins, Kentucky Age: 49 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831 Birthplace: Missouri Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Polly Father's birthplace: North Carolina Mother's birthplace: North Carolina Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name-- Age William Woolard-- 49 Polly Woolard --49 Nancy H Woolard-- 15 Elizabeth A. G. Woolard --11 Sarah Grysam-- 71 1880 United States Federal Census --Grandmother Name: Sarah Grysam Home in 1880: Charleston, Hopkins, Kentucky Age: 71 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1809 Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of Household: Mother-in-law Father's birthplace: North Carolina Mother's birthplace: North Carolina Occupation: No Occupation Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female (I found the census listing for her parents and grandmother. Rootsweb.com had listings for William, but his spouse's name didn't match or she wasn't listed. Neither was her mother. William was listed on www.familysearch.org, but the birth year/location didn't match; and neither Polly nor her mother were listed here. I think Polly is a nickname, but I don't know for what other name) www.familysearch.org--marriage info James S Beshear Birth: 09 SEP 1865 , , Kentucky Death: 13 MAR 1939 Married: 09 DEC 1885 , Hopkins, Kentucky to Betsy A Woolard Children: . Otley Beshear Birth: About 1890 Of, , , Kentucky I did go to the site...but typed in Elizabeth (not Betsy)...and came up with entirely too many...since you did not list approximate dob...or country. Try adding those to your query, one of us might be able to assist you. Also, list (if you will) her husband's name, as you stated you knew that also. Family trees submitted to familysearch.org vary widely in their accuracy. Some submitters researched their trees thoroughly with documented original (or near-original extracted) sources -- however, other submitters did NOT. Trees have not been checked by anyone to "validate" them. Familysearch.org even has a "disclaimer": "The information has not been verified against any official records. Since the information in Ancestral File is contributed, it is the responsibility of those who use the file to verify its accuracy." Therefore, you can't consider the trees as true, until you back up whatever you find with documents -- birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, wills, land records, etc. etc. If two entries have similar birthdates on familysearch.org, there is no way to choose one or the other without checking the sources for YOUR specific ancestor. The trees can provide nice clues and can link you up with cousins who are researching the same lines, but that's about it. generally Betsy is an older style nicknam for Elizabeth. |