http://blog.myheritage.com/2011/10/genealogy-accidentally-digging-up-the-dirt/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.myheritage.com/2011/10/genealogy-accidentally-digging-up-the-dirt/#comment-10798 Cheri Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:20:53 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/?p=16094#comment-10798 On the 1910 US Census for Leesburg VA my grandmother Maud L. Wise is listed as age 8, along with her brother's Richard and Clifton. Her mother, Maggie Wise, has answered the question "how many children" and the answer is 0. Now this was not an "oh my" response but a "I told you" response. The unfortunate part about all this is who truly is the mother of the Wise children? It then makes you question their father, Louis Wise, born in 1881, is he really their father or could he have been an older brother? It then alters thinking, who was Maggie Wise and where was Louis Wise at the time of census, he was not in the household with Maggie and her children are listed as servants in the home of Charles McKimmey. As you note our job is to compile accurate records, and thus far this is as far as I've gotten with Maud. A birth record would be a blessing but there is none as yet to be found; I was told it was no required to have births recorded. Although it is not believed that she or her siblings were born in Leesburg. The family thought....Maud and her brothers were conceived with a black woman and a white man, but the woman was not Maggie Wise. Maggie would years later have two children who were indeed dark in color as she, not the three where I have found them listed as mulatto and even white. So my own experience leads to this factor, Maud was the best grandmother ever and the best mother to her thirteen children. On the 1910 US Census for Leesburg VA my grandmother Maud L. Wise is listed as age 8, along with her brother’s Richard and Clifton. Her mother, Maggie Wise, has answered the question “how many children” and the answer is 0. Now this was not an “oh my” response but a “I told you” response. The unfortunate part about all this is who truly is the mother of the Wise children? It then makes you question their father, Louis Wise, born in 1881, is he really their father or could he have been an older brother? It then alters thinking, who was Maggie Wise and where was Louis Wise at the time of census, he was not in the household with Maggie and her children are listed as servants in the home of Charles McKimmey. As you note our job is to compile accurate records, and thus far this is as far as I’ve gotten with Maud. A birth record would be a blessing but there is none as yet to be found; I was told it was no required to have births recorded. Although it is not believed that she or her siblings were born in Leesburg. The family thought….Maud and her brothers were conceived with a black woman and a white man, but the woman was not Maggie Wise. Maggie would years later have two children who were indeed dark in color as she, not the three where I have found them listed as mulatto and even white. So my own experience leads to this factor, Maud was the best grandmother ever and the best mother to her thirteen children.

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