Suggestions for finding a missing ancestor
I don’t know if missing is the right word, but I recently found a reference to an ancestor that surprised my uncle when I brought it up.
My great great grandparents settled in Oklahoma Territory in the 1880s. They had three kids, two girls and a boy (my great grandfather). My GG Grandmother died in 1899. I recently found an obituary for her which states she was a “loving mother of four” and then later states the youngest child was sent to live with a “Mrs. Miller.”
I have no clue how to go about finding anything on this mystery child. As far as I know my family has always accepted there were three kids. My GG Grand Aunt, who would be this child’s older sister, was three when their mother died and so would likely have remembered him/her, not to mention her two older siblings definitely being old enough to remember, but she makes no reference to a younger child in the genealogical research she did.
I’ve tried finding other newspaper articles for things like birth announcements. I even looked through the 1900 census for the country trying to find a Miller family with a child about that age. I’m just not sure where else to look