Confusing Fisher's!

Like many out there, I inherited not-very-well-documented genealogy information. Perhaps you're like me and started out doing genealogy and not giving as much attention to every single source, but here I am 10+ years later trying to tease out what is real, what is fiction, what is "kind of" right, but not 100% accurate.

Well, I have a line of Fisher. What information I have been given is not supported by census or other records at this time. Who is my Matilda C. Fisher's mother? Father? Siblings? There are 2 Matilda Fisher's that I have found that "could" fit, but I do not know if they really do. The IGI and other online sources are no help with the documentation of the information -- so I have to do the combing through of census and other records on my own, knowing I cannot trust anything other than source information (census and marriage records at this point).

Matilda C. Fisher married James Turnbow 6 Jul 1865, in Lamar County, Texas. I have this from the Texas marriage records (though it is an index, not a scan of the actual record). From census records I have she was born in Mississippi, her parents were born in South Carolina. Is that even true?

So, I keep looking. Where are you Matilda? Where are your parents? Are you the Matilda Caroline Fisher daughter of Albert G. Fisher and Peggy Elmira Crowder? They were in Mississippi at the right time, then in Arkansas, and at some point Matilda was in Texas and married James Turnbow.

Off on the genealogy adventure (in between taking care of kids, making dinner, and being a wife!). Wish me luck!

Dece