Anyone know gillingham family,father charles and mother frances in ohio?

Question

already looked in family search and ancestry.com.

Answer 1

Were they in Ohio before the war, or after it?

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Added later:

If you asked yourself "Which war?", you got my point. There have been white people in Ohio since 1788, and red ones for 6,000+ years before then. The Gillinghams may have been Indians. Probably not, but a date or two would help.

I found this couple, which looks like yours, unless your Charles married Frances when he mustered out of the 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1866. They were hiding in Maine.

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bi...

Click on "Advanced Search" to use some of the fields besides name.

CHARLES GILLINGHAM  

b. 05 Jan 1920

d. Jan 1983

LR 04073 (Sanford, York, ME)

SSN issued Ohio

FRANCES S GILLINGHAM  

b. 08 Aug 1921

d. 15 Apr 1998

LR 04073 (Sanford, York, ME)

SSN Issued Ohio

Note:

The names match.

She was a year and a half younger than he, a VERY common pattern

She outived him, another VERY common pattern

Both SSNs issued in Ohio

Both died in the same small town in Maine

I'd bet 10:1 these are yours. I might lose. More research needed.

If you caught a trophy bass with every cast, the "lure" of bass fishing would fade. If you got your relatives "dead on" with every search, genealogy would not be as much fun.