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I tried FamilySearch Full Text Search for the first time. I really wasn't sure it could help me, or with what. I've been looking and listening to video and print articles about AI, not at all sure I wanted to even try to do anything with it. The Full Text Search seemed safe to start with. I am glad I tried!
I have been looking for the marriage record for Charles Pinkney Beard and Beatrice Brown for so long. Years ago someone replied to me on a message board that they had been in Etowah County, Alabama looking for something and ran across this document. All they could remember was that the note attached was signed by her father who was R. F. Brown. That was all I knew about her family.
The note:
Judge J. W. Penn - Judge of probate.
You are hereby authorized and permitted to issue marriage license for the marriage of my daughter Beatrice to C. P. Beard. My daughter is between sixteen and seventeen years of age - under the legal age - but any consent to the marriage is hereby given and you are authorized to issue the license there for - This Aug. 24-1907
attest E.G. Hanner[?]
L.E. Harris[?]
Attalla Ala
Aug. 24-1907 R. F. Brown
There are two names I am having trouble with. They use initials so often in the south, it drives me nuts. Someone wrote the note for her father, but that would most likely be his signature.
Charles and Beatrice were married at the residence of Judge J.W. Penn.
Beatrice gave birth to my grandmother, Bizzie Lee in 1909, and she died on October 1, 1911. There simply isn't a lot of information about the Brown family. Charles married again and had several children.
So, I have been looking for an R.F. Brown for years to no avail. My only other information about the family came from family. They have said the Brown family moved from Georgia to Alabama, and after Beatrice died they moved to St. Clair County, Alabama. There was a son named Robert or that was her fathers name, which is not very helpful. I did learn something though. Her mother, I hope, went with her and is listed as P.L. Brown. Again with the initials! So it seems I am looking for a R. F. Brown married to a P. It's really sad that P is so big to me!
Now, if only I could find her death certificate. :(
I tried FamilySearch Full Text Search for the first time. I really wasn't sure it could help me, or with what. I've been looking and listening to video and print articles about AI, not at all sure I wanted to even try to do anything with it. The Full Text Search seemed safe to start with. I am glad I tried!
I have been looking for the marriage record for Charles Pinkney Beard and Beatrice Brown for so long. Years ago someone replied to me on a message board that they had been in Etowah County, Alabama looking for something and ran across this document. All they could remember was that the note attached was signed by her father who was R. F. Brown. That was all I knew about her family.
The note:
Judge J. W. Penn - Judge of probate.
You are hereby authorized and permitted to issue marriage license for the marriage of my daughter Beatrice to C. P. Beard. My daughter is between sixteen and seventeen years of age - under the legal age - but any consent to the marriage is hereby given and you are authorized to issue the license there for - This Aug. 24-1907
attest E.G. Hanner[?]
L.E. Harris[?]
Attalla Ala
Aug. 24-1907 R. F. Brown
There are two names I am having trouble with. They use initials so often in the south, it drives me nuts. Someone wrote the note for her father, but that would most likely be his signature.
Charles and Beatrice were married at the residence of Judge J.W. Penn.
Beatrice gave birth to my grandmother, Bizzie Lee in 1909, and she died on October 1, 1911. There simply isn't a lot of information about the Brown family. Charles married again and had several children.
So, I have been looking for an R.F. Brown for years to no avail. My only other information about the family came from family. They have said the Brown family moved from Georgia to Alabama, and after Beatrice died they moved to St. Clair County, Alabama. There was a son named Robert or that was her fathers name, which is not very helpful. I did learn something though. Her mother, I hope, went with her and is listed as P.L. Brown. Again with the initials! So it seems I am looking for a R. F. Brown married to a P. It's really sad that P is so big to me!
Now, if only I could find her death certificate. :(
