My great-grandmother continues to elude me in 1925. As do her children. I'm finding it very vexing because I can't figure out why I can't find her. My best guess is that the census transcription for the page that they're on in the 1925 Iowa census is typically mangled almost beyond recognition. What does it say about me that I refuse to give up? I mean, I *know* they're there. There is nowhere else that they would be.
So my current approach is to go through the census pages, starting with the counties and townships I know that they lived in either before or after, on the page that lists the person's father's name and where he was born, and looking for my great-grandfather. I find that I am actually quite enjoying this and it's enabled me to trace some of my great-grandmother's siblings.
So, yes, my family tree includes all kinds of documentation for offshoots and people who are not related to me whatsoever except by marriage. But sometimes I find out interesting information that way. And I like it. Maybe it's just that it appeals to the innate researcher in me. I don't know. But I love discovering little tidbits and finding one more piece of evidence that this person was *real*. And the fact that my great-grandmother's family is on the same census page as my great-grandfather's family, as are my great-grandparents themselves (who were newly married), in 1905? That, my friends? Is priceless.
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