It's been a long while since I've posted here. Honestly, the people I assumed would read this blog are on my maternal grandmother's side and I've been researching mostly my father's side and my maternal grandFATHER's line.
Anyway, so my grandfather didn't know his mother very well. All he could tell me was her name was Bernice. She died while he was pretty young and that was all he could really remember. But, a few years ago, I was able to find a marriage record for C. W. Porter and Bernice Bradley. GREAT! I have her maiden name and her birth year! That's awesome. But on the marriage records under 'next of kin' it was written "dead." Not very helpful. I'd hit a road block.
Fast forward to just last week.
I guess it had been a while since I searched for Bernice Porter. In fact, I'm not even sure I ever had since I had put so much effort into finding her maiden name. So, I was just searching around to see what I could find and I came across her death certificate. Her full name is actually Alice Delila Bernice Bradley Porter. Talk about a mouthful. I see why she went by Bernice. I was able to confirm this through a couple other source checks. I also was able to find Bernice's parents in the census. It helps when you search for the name they gave her instead of her second middle name.
It was an exciting day!
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