a great find!

I was looking for Oklahoma records today and came across a post leading me to this website:
http://www.odcr.com

It has access to an index, basically, of court records in Oklahoma. It's a variety of courts, but I was able to find marriage records of ancestors and able to get an idea of who my Grandpa's aunts married. :)
Myrtle Lavarnway married Oscar Martin on 12/07/1924 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Ruby Lavarnway married Willie Chapman on 10/01/1928 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Ruth Lavarnway married James Brady on 05/06/1929 in Okfuskee, Oklahoma, then married Clyde McCoin on 12/23/1939 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Virgie Lavarnway married Roy McConnell on 11/18/1931 in Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma

I also discovered a marriage listed for Levi Turnbow that I was not aware of. Because I just see an index, I do not know for certain this is my great-great Grandfather or not.
Levi Turnbow married Roxie Staton on 06/01/1913 in Salpulpa, Creek, Oklahoma

I also looked up Hardt in the index and Turnbow and Sullivan, finding my Grandma's aunts and who they married (though I did already have this info, it's nice to see it again).

I have so much work to do. I found a listing in the SSDI for Virgie L. McConnell who I believe is correct. Now to find these aunts in the census records with their husbands and children, so I can get names straight. :)

Wish me luck!
Dece

Organizing

I spent some time today organizing a notebook of my genealogy research into file folders, separated by surname. Guess which folders are bursting at the seams? Kerley, Sullivan, and Hardt. Not a big surprise, right? ;-)

This organization effort will be ongoing, as I have so many boxes and notebooks and binders full of research notes and information gathered in the Family History Library and from my distant cousins via the internet and email. Oh how I love email! I have come so far in the past 10 years working on genealogy!!

This morning I picked up death certificates and funeral recordings for my dad's funeral. I cannot believe he is gone. I thought there would be more time to write and record his memories and now I am left with relying on my faulty memory and prying at my family to "remember that story Dad told about his first car" or whatever. Why didn't I have a micro-recorder in my purse and just place it on the table when I'd visit Dad? Grr...

I started keeping a personal journal last week. I need an outline of every day life for when the time comes that I begin writing my own autobiography. Will it be interesting? Probably just to my family. ;-) But wouldn't you love to have a journal or book that your great-grandmother wrote about their day to day life? What a treasure it would be!!

I wish you all a happy 4th of July!

Dece