ack! I think I found my grandmother in Texas!

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What a total SHOCK! No wonder we could not find her! She lived to be almost 100 years old it seems and she died a couple of years before my own mother did.

:wow:

Death info. from the year 2000:

La Grange, Fayette, Texas

(zip code: 78945)

Can one order a death cert. if one is not absolutely certain that it is who they are looking for from the State of Texas? I am almost certain it is her as she was born (and apparently died) in Texas. She also got her SS# in Arizona which happens to be where my mother's foster parents moved to several years after they adopted her in the mid-1920s.

Thanks for any help at all!

[brook]

1. Try here....

PDF files death certificate

Good luck!

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2. thank you!

I am pretty sure it is her! She apparently never married after giving my mom up.

Too bad my mom didn't live to find this out. :(

Thanks again!!

I'll let you guys know what happens w/this. :)

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3. Congratulations!

It's so exciting. I hope you get all the info you need to complete your search.

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4. why thank you!

this is a major major find for me being my mother was adopted. She had thought that the whole thing was a complete farce. I have the birth certificate and her mother was born in Texas not too far from where this death occurred.

It will cost me $23.50 to get this death certificate. If the names of the parents I have do not match, they won't send it to me.

However, I can get it if they do in fact match up! :party: :)

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5. well I found grandma alright

The one I mentioned in the prior post was not her. I ordered her SS record and no match.

My ancestry.com subscription was due to expire yesterday so I went online Friday for a last "look" just to see if I had missed anything.

I did a search on my grandmother's 1/2 sister and :wow: again! She popped up and it seems she lived to be 96 years old!

The person that had posted this on ancestry.com also had MY GRANDMOTHER listed as well and it seems that after she gave my mother up for adoption, she married a widower in New Orleans, LA where they lived for about 20 years and she raised his 4 year old son that was apparently born around the same time as my mother.

She died in 1968 in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas at the age of 64 years of age.

I did not renew ancestry.com but I will order the death cert. to find out cause of death. She apparently never had any more children after having my mother and giving her up.

So, this mystery of 80+ years is now solved and I now know WHO I AM. (!!!)

It took me 11 years of genealogical research to find my elusive grandmother. I'd say my efforts have finally born some fruit as I found other family trees that go with this finding. My mother traces back to the year 1496 believe it or not.

I'm betting I have just about every sort of bloodline possible in me which makes me nothing but just another American. :patriot: :D

:dem:

[yellerpup]

6. I am so happy for you!

Congratulations for finally working it out after so many years doing the research. In my own research, I have found "just about every sort of bloodline possible" as well. Just goes to show, the world is not that big and we are all related when we go back far enough in time. Again, congratulations. These bloodlines are especially hard to discover when people are trying to hide the truth. I am so glad that you found yours.

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7. thanks yellerpup!

I sent off a money order for the death cert. the other day. I'll let ya'll know what I find if anything. It seems my grandma had a sister as well (a full sister).

This sister was born in 1909 and died in 2004! She outlived Mother! Seems I have some genes I must be carrying for longevity (unlike my late father's case). I doubt I can get a death certificate on her being the death was perhaps too recent to obtain (??).

If anyone knows please advise (she died in Indiana).

Thanks for your kind comments yellerpup!

Seek and ye shall find eh? ;)

:dem:

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8. death cert. arrived!

It arrived the day before yesterday! The informant was her sister that lived to be 96 years old. I've ordered her death cert. too. She died in Indiana. The cost for it was $8.00 compared to the $21.00 money order that they require in Texas.

Cause of death: abdominal aortic aneurysm it says.

She was a retired secretary for the City of New Orleans it seems and had moved to Beaumont, TX about 8 years before her death in 1968.

So, now I know.

80 years of looking ... looking and wondering ...

I would say that I have achieved my goal in this research and that has been to find and identify who my grandmother was. I sure wish that my dear late mother would have lived long enough to share this with her. Mother was a retired secretary too.

It is bittersweet for me.

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