when you think you've solved a genealogy problem in case study you have to be able
to explain it in this video I'm going to attempt to explain to you how I came up with
the theory of Hiram Underwood and Nancy and Daddy being the parents of Winfield
Underwood and hopefully teach you some things along the way how you can do the same thing
howdy I'm Devin olv and this is family history fanatics if this is your first time with that
Andy Caleb and I teach you how you can find your family and preserve your Alexi and have a ton of
fun along the way we're on episode 13 of the series research over my shoulder focused on
Winfield Underwood today we're gonna combine all of the clues and evidence that ice had gathered
for answering the question who are winfield under what Spearin and try to explain it all to you and
then talk about or begin the discussion of how do we let other people know of our finding okay
so in the last video we have three clue webs we had Nancy Underwood who lived in Kentucky
in 1880 with a whole household of kids and no daddy but that census record to choose made
so we're gonna get rid of the benefit of it up over there on the bottom left we have a tree for
each J Underwood and his son Clinton and they're hanging out in Grayson County Texas prior to the
1880s census we found in 1860 census and on that record we found Hyrum and Nancy living in Taylor
County Kentucky with the son Winfield Underwood the possible person world trying to track down
Winfield Underwood a sister Cordelia as well as Hiram's parents Hyrum and Cecelia or Celia those
arrows show you where we think the kids spit now let walk it through I believe that the husband
of Nancy Underwood in the 1880 census is named Hiram J I believe based on that 1880 census that
he was hanging out getting prepared for Nancy to migrate out there rather than haul everybody out
there especially since she has a youngling a very young young Ling there in her household
he went ahead got everything ready he took his son Clinton in Clinton is just younger than Henry now
since I believe Clinton and Henry are related to Nancy Clinton's death record put bite at the last
name of daddy for Nancy so I switched Nancy and Gaddy from Nancy just Lane and now I have
the maiden name of Nancy based on her son Clinton death record I believe this little tree based on
the 1860 census record for Hyrum and Nancy and gee when filled and Cody Lea actually fit this
family and so what's going to happen net is I'm gonna smush them into the common clue web and you
can see Winfield and Cody Lea come above all the kids had to make him a whole lot smaller to fit on
this screen and because I believe this to be true I can then add the additional information that I
had from the 1860 census as well as the additional 1880 census I've got the location of where Nancy
was born her mother was born actually and her father was born and then because I did additional
records I believe she died in Texas I needed to do a little more research but I'm confident she died
in Texas and I can take the rest of that family fireman Cecilia from the 1860 census slap it on
here throw in the birth date of Kentucky and then I found a death date for Hyrum right there as well
combining all of those trees now because I have that shitty I can make it small and then add the
tree of Winfield and Rhoda Kelly with my question what does the G stand for and who are his parents
I believe I have figured this out so Winfield here is the same of the Winfield here with the other
kids and because I can establish this connection what I can do with my original clue bub with the
possibility of Hyrum with Eliza Jane Martin or Gotti or Hiram and Nancy I can go ahead and rule
out that hyoeun isn't the son as Nancy based on all the additional records that I didn't have
time to explain secure would be her forever on the family history fanatics Channel I went ahead and
ruled that out even though the death record said that that's what's his mom it really is that Daddy
and daddy is that Nancy and daddy so I have now turned that red question to green question because
it is solved now I did this by finding a lot of records that we talked about in a previous video I
found the I still need to find the original birth record but I found the marriage record we found
the 1860 record the SN so it's the 1870 census the 1920 census and although it's not green I need to
make it green I found a lot of other vital records for the children an additional record that we
didn't have time to cover Deckard's find A Grave records and more so what next well the first thing
I need to do is go over to Sam Lee search and break the relationship between Winfield Underwood
and the parents Hiram Elizabeth when we break that link I need to stop and tell people why I'm doing
that in those annoying boxes knocked down research annoying first others I love them we're going to
tell people why we're breaking because Eliza Jane Martin is not hi Winfield mother now we also need
to check to make sure Elijah Jane Martin could have been married to a Hiram and had those other
kids so we might just have to put just break the relationship to be clear-cut between both sets the
parents or just one we're not going to cover that in this video but that's something you have to
figure out but then we need to take our Winfield and attach him to the parents Hyrum and Nancy and
make sure Hyrum is also connected to Hyrum and Celia we have a lot of work to do over in family
search finally I need to write a conclusion of why all of this is true I can do that by attaching all
of those sources that we discussed through this whole process to families thirds completing the
recent station statement boxes every time I add a new source so others can see my reasoning and why
I did what I did that's what it's gonna help you to lock down these relationships that get
tangled up sources and the reason statements on Family Search where else can I explain my evidence
for the conclusions I've made so that nobody else messes up Windfields tree it keeps him with Hyrum
and Nancy and all those other siblings let me know in the comment section below because I just I find
that together we can come up with a lot of great answers so make sure you leave a comment and learn
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