Sometimes the Mil Info or another good source says the soldier had one or more dead children, but doesn't give any names. A child is a child whether alive and named or dead and unnamed. All these children must be added to the Grid. Add them in the following manner.
Last name, (Child)
Smith, (Child)
If you don't have any birth or death dates, use what information you know to infer. You might have a dead by date from the Family Circular. Or the child is listed as dead on a census. Fill in black and yellow Xs as appropriate.
We just want to make sure that ALL of the soldier's children are added to the Grid. If you think this dead child refers to another child you've already entered, then there is no need to enter the child again.
If the 1900 or 1910 census showed that the soldier's wife had 4 of 6 children living and the mil info didn't name the 2 children who supposedly died, then we can still enter them on the grid?
ReplyDeleteI think I am asking the same question as Irene did, are we basing this off information provided by the spouse on the 1900 and 1910 census or only if there is evidence of other children from another source also? Especially since we are interested in the soldiers children and not children the spouse may have had with another man. We have not acted on the information from the census records in the past other than to do a search and see if we come up with birth records, or other records, for other children indicated.
ReplyDeleteI had the same question, as I've encountered that situation several times.
ReplyDeleteIn answer to this question. Add a dead children to the Grid if you feel you have enough evidence that the soldier had a child. Use your judgement as an experienced census inputter.
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