MyAncestors.net

Proof is a fundamental concept in genealogy.  In order to merit confidence, each conclusion about an ancestor must have sufficient credibility to be accepted as "proven."  Acceptable conclusions, therefore, meet the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS). The GPS consists of five elements:

I continually strive to meet the GPS standards in our genealogical research.  While I still lack sufficient "proof" for most of the individuals in our research, I am always looking for help in locating the necessary documents to complete my quest for 100% validity in our research.  The following is a list of individuals that I have acquired supporting documentation to legitimately prove the accuracy and credibility of the collected data.  If you have supporting documentation, of any type, for any of your family members that I have listed on this site and would like to contribute it as an aid to other researchers in our family, please e-mail me and I will work with you to get the documentation and list you on the Contributors page.  Please help me make MyAncestors.net the definitive website for our family's genealogical research.

The documents you will find below are original and/or legal documents that have been acquired from individuals collecting them or that have been ordered from state vital records departments.  Many of the documents have been scanned in from a scrapbook or other forms of storage.  Because it is difficult, time consuming, and possibly harmful to remove documents from a very old scrapbook page, the documents have been scanned while they were in the scrapbook.  You may notice shiny areas where the scanner light reflected off of the plastic sheet that was protecting the document or you may notice hand-writing on different documents.  These documents are originals and notes may have been written on them in an attempt for the individual collecting them to be able to recognize who the person is in relation to themselves or to make notes regarding other aspects of that person.  You may find individuals with multiple memory cards or obituaries, both have been included because they are different or one has notes written on it while the other is unaltered.  Regardless of hand-written notes or the condition of the documents, the data on the document legitimately proves the accuracy of names, dates, and locations with the exception of the possibility of incorrect data in the original document.

All names below are listed in alphabetical order and are recorded by the person's married name followed by the (maiden) name.  Due to the lack of knowing both the married and maiden names of some of the women, some women's names may be listed using only one or the other.

NOTE: It has come to my attention that many of the scanned documents have very small print and are difficult to read on the internet.  While it is my intention to provide a solid form of proof with these documents, the process in which I must reduce the resolution of the scanned image, hence creating a smaller file size to allow more documents on the page without long loading times, causes the document to be slightly grainy and difficult to read when small print is used.  If you are trying to read or print specific documents, please email me your request and I will send you the original scanned image that is easy to read and prints clearly.