{"id":689,"date":"2009-02-09T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findyourdead.com\/wp\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-02-09T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:37:21","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"If At First You Don't Succeed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholefield Family Tree<\/h3>\n

Come on, we all know the rest…Try Again! And that is true even in genealogy. There are several reasons for this: many times databases are updated or changed, new databases are being made available, and sometimes you just have a stroke of genius which leads you to request a search you have not used before. And sometimes, the same database on two different systems will produce different results.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, maybe you just forgot which searches you had completed or were dumb and did not make a note of your findings.<\/p>\n

I have run across Mary Ellen (Crampton) Fitzgerald’s death information — possibly for a second time. I can’t remember if I actually was searching and found it but was putting off blogging about it and did not make a note. All I know is that I realized I didn’t have her death information, figured that I had to have looked for it before, started with the widest possible search, and when I found the record, it actually does look like something I have seen before. But enough babbling, onto the information.<\/p>\n

I ran a search for all ‘Mary Fitzgerald’s in the California Death Index at Rootsweb<\/a>. There were only (surprisingly) 123 results. One of which is our gal:<\/p>\n

\"blockquote\"FITZGERALD MARY ELLEN
\nborn 01\/17\/1864 [this is incorrect] in CALIFORNIA
\nmother’s name BERNETT
\nfather’s name CRAMPTON
\ndied 08\/05\/1940 in SAN FRANCISCO1<\/sup> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just for fun, I went to Ancestry.com and ran the same search in what is reportedly the same database — no results. Even attempting to narrow down to the information above does not return this result.<\/p>\n

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1. “California Death Records,” database, Rootsweb <\/em>(http:\/\/vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/ca\/death\/search.cgi : accessed 9 Feb 2009), entry for Mary Ellen Fitzgerald (5 Aug 1940); Citing California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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