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RLP 230: Finding a Female's Father - Research Logs and Report Writing

The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast

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Did You Find More About John Klein?

Eliza is 10 on the 1850 census so she was born about 1840 and I found her birthday it was a little bit closer to 1839 you know right in there 3940. The 1840 census for John Klein still fits the hypothesis that he could have been the father of Eliza's mother. Mahalah Klein married Thomas Shockley in 1854 in Morgan County Missouri and again I thought okay she could have just been going by her maiden name right we see women whose husbands died and their widows and then they use their former married name. One of her daughters lived all the way to 1965 on her death certificate states her parents asMahalah Klein and Thomas Shockley so that tells me

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