I Can Identify - 52 Ancestors Challenge
Week 8: I Can Identify This week I want to focus on one ancestor that I can identify as one difficult to identify. You know, the one's where you just can't get a good handle on who they really are and if you have them combined with someone else. He is my 3rd great-grandfather, Gottlob Friedrich Ortlieb (LB19-N3R). He was confused with another man of the same name so I needed to identify what records went with my grandfather and which were for the other man of the same name. He was the last one with a blue record hint on my seven-generation FamilySearch fan chart and I really wanted to get rid of it! This was a case where you definitely needed to work backward. I found records for my 2nd great-grandmother that identified Gottlob with his spouse, Catherine Louise Pauline Roser. This turned out to be the biggest help in this research as their marriage record was how I differentiated between the two men. Luckily, the two men had parents with very different names so there was no co...