Tracing Back The Dysfunctional Roots

Well, I’ve an update on the whole 1930 Census mystery about my grandmother. I’ve gotten verification from my mother that my great-grandparents were living in Tampa at that time and they were separated in 1930, not divorced as I previously thought. They had joint custody and since they were living as boarders at those residences, that explains why my grandmother shows up as a resident at both places and their names are mispelled. (They did have oddly spelled names.)

So, I had been going on some assumptions that my great-grandparents had married in Tennessee, but I’m not entirely sure that’s the case anymore. However, I can now start to look for divorce records in Tampa sometime between 1930 and 1935. Anytime after that would be too late. My grandmother was 16 when she left my great-grandfather to go live with my great-grandmother. She was supposedly fairly young when she was “kidnapped” by him and taken to Georgia or Tennessee.

Anyway, it’s a place to look.

tags: genealogy, 1930 census, dysfunctional family

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