I have been a real stickler about citing all my information in my family tree.  Yesterday, I took my camera and went to the (local) cemetary to take pictures of my husband's family's tombstones.  Well, my batteries were dead (no pun intended) so I couldn't take any pictures, so I wrote down the information of the ancestors that I hadn't yet incorporated in the family tree.  One of them was a brother to my husband's maternal great grandmother, Irby W. Reed.  After inputting his birth and death dates, I waited for Ancestry.com to give me hints.  I was hoping I'd get a hint from the SSDI or Texas Death Index, but no such luck.  Instead, I got a hit for the 1920 census for the next county over.  I know that Irby's mother's name was Susie McCain, but all Ancestry.com kept giving me hints on were family trees and I'd rather get my information from actual source documents that I can cite, such as census records and death indexes.  In the 1920 census, Irby was living with his brother-in-law, Norman Dolive, Norman's wife, Lillie Dolive, Norman's mother-in-law Susie Reneau, and Norman's niece, Anna M. Holtam.  I knew that Anna Holtam was DH's great aunt (one of his grandmother's sisters).  I also realized that Norman's MIL would be Irby's mother, which was the correct first name, but a different last name than I had ever seen.  It also listed her as Widowed.  And I had no idea that DH's great grandmother had a sister named Lillie.  (One of DH's aunts is named Lillie, so maybe she was named after her?)  I also had no idea that DH's great great grandmother Susie had remarried.  So with Susie being the correct mother's name and the birth years being correct and knowing DH's Great Aunt Ann was living with them (which we did not know or know why), I have added new ancestors....his great great Aunt Lillie and her husband, Norman and I think it's interesting to know that DH's great aunt lived with her aunt and uncles and grandmother, yet I wonder where her mother or siblings were......

 Also, I was able to track Great Grandmother Susie Mc Cain.  Her dad is John W. Mc Cain, which makes me wonder if DH is related to Republican Presidential Nominee John Mc Cain.  Hmmmm......  More genealogy research to do ...so little time to do it!

Heather