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I have been searching extensively for a few months trying to track down the marriage date of my great-grandfather John A. Blom and great-grandmother Jeanette Moes without much luck. That is... until earlier today!
I was browsing around at archives.com and found a couple of newspaper articles from The Hammond Times paper, and in April of 1926 my great-grandmother was mentioned under her maiden name because her friends threw her a "miscellaneous" shower. A few months later in October of 1926 there was a birth announcement mentioning my great-grandparents being the parents of a 9 pound baby girl. This information matched what I had already narrowed down by census records. I had guessed that my great-grandparents had been married sometime between 1920 and 1930 as on the 1920 Census my great-grandmother was still using her maiden name Moes, and in the 1930 Census she was living with her husband and daughter.
I decided to do a search for Lake County, Indiana marriage indexes because I knew that both great-grandparents had died in Indiana and had spent a lot of time living in the Lake County area. I came across a site containing the Lake County, Indiana Marriage Book Index with links to listings both by Groom's surname and Bride's surname. I wasn't sure I would find anything as most references to the Indiana Marriage indexes seemed to show the latest year to be 1920, however I decided to look anyways just to see.
Well, it turns out, I hit the jackpot! I found them listed in both links with the same information! I now know that I will need to a copy of page 77 of book 59 for their marriage that occurred April 15, 1926 in Lake County, Indiana. I am going to be sending that request by mail on Monday morning, and I can't wait to have it in my hands!
You are having so much success, you are going to make the rest of us jealous! I'm really just kidding because it's very exciting to read about the successes of fellow genealogists. Here's wishing you many more finds in quick succession!
ReplyDeleteThank you! :)
ReplyDeleteI've been listening to all the back episodes of both Genealogy Gems and Genealogy Guys podcasts and have gotten a lot of use out of the info in them. I think that's probably a good deal of why I've had so much success lately. I've been able to look at the brick walls in new ways and break them down.