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Passenger lists on both sides of the Atlantic reconnect Friedrich Wilhelm Marx, Emilie Marx, and nine-year-old Henrietta Schultz across a journey that began in Brandenburg and ended in Wisconsin.
Read the evidenceBirth, census, and marriage records follow Caroline Susan Heintz from Clark County, Wisconsin, into the Marx family and later to Chautauqua County, New York—while also showing why indexed names must be read with care.
Read the evidenceA sequence of censuses, a city directory, an official marriage index, and military records connects Frank Raymond Shepard and Dolores A. Van Dusen to several generations of Buffalo families without borrowing unsupported branches from copied trees.
Read the evidenceOne accessible obituary resolved a copied-tree conflation: Delores M. Watkins belonged to a Dunkirk family headed by Charles Watkins and Lola Parker—not to the unrelated Charles Thomas Watkins and Evelyn Roos household previously attached to her.
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