![\"Mabel](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Mabel-Dodd-obit.jpg\" "\\"Mabel")
<\/a>I started looking online: what could I find, if anything, on Ancestry or FamilySearch?\u00a0 The newspaper obituary did not include any information about when it was or where it was. \u00a0It did include her deceased husband\u2019s name and a surviving son\u2019s name. \u00a0I quickly confirmed her death, in 1972, via the Social Security Death Index and that told me it was in Toledo, Ohio. Next on the Index of Ohio deaths on Ancestry I found her parents\u2019 \u00a0names listed. \u00a0George Lane and Mary Wiley. \u00a0The obituary also noted that burial was in Spring Grove Cemetery<\/a> in Cincinnati. \u00a0Now I had another place to look, since I know that Spring Grove has a nice website that allows searching for names. \u00a0I found 3 Dodds by searching the last name. \u00a0Spring Grove\u2019s site also lets you search by location, and now I had the section and lot numbers to play with. \u00a0Using these I found both of Mabel\u2019s parents and several in-laws, all in the same section and lot.\u00a0 Spring Grove provides a PDF copy of the burial information so I downloaded all of these.<\/p>\n The best lead was the information on Mabel\u2019s mother\u2019s burial card that her parents were Samuel Wiley and Mary Richards.\u00a0 Mabel\u2019s name isn\u2019t in my database, but Samuel Wiley\u2019s and Mary Richards\u2019s are. \u00a0And when I look, there is Mary Wiley listed as their youngest child based on the 1860 Federal census. \u00a0I have no information for this Mary other than an estimated birth year (from the 1860 census). \u00a0Now I potentially have several pieces of information for her, including a husband and at least one child (Mabel).<\/p>\n Ohio is a wonderful state to be researching because there are a number of places where there is information online to be had. \u00a0Death certificates between 1908 and 1953 are indexed in several places, including the Ohio Historical Society<\/a>, Ancestry.com and the FamilySearch Pilot sites. \u00a0The images of these are available on the beta FamilySearch.org<\/a> site, which I think you have to register on in order to be able to download. \u00a0Since I have already registered here, I was able to find and download the death certificates for those people who died before 1953. \u00a0I don\u2019t have a death certificate for Mabel but I do for her parents. \u00a0This website also has Ohio marriages indexed, although there are no images. \u00a0So now I also have marriage dates for Mabel\u2019s parents and for Mabel (as well as everyone else in this general family line I could think of!).<\/p>\n But my real question is what is the relationship between Mabel and any of my relatives. \u00a0I have wondered and struggled with the Wiley-Thompson relationship since I first went through one of our family Bibles that included a lot of information about them. \u00a0Another daughter of Samuel Wiley and Mary Richards, Martha J. Wiley married George Thompson. \u00a0I have not been clear about what the relationship is, but the Bible came to us from a collateral Salt line so I have assumed that there is a connection with the Salt family somewhere. \u00a0Thus they are already in my database. \u00a0And it turns out that Mary Wiley is also already there, I just didn\u2019t know anything about her spouse or children.<\/p>\n Figuring out the relationships is more complicated. \u00a0Finally, by using RootsMagic\u2019s ability to show relationships I can see that Martha Wiley was the aunt of Margaret Thompson Day who married Edward W. Salt, Jr. \u00a0Since Mary Wiley was a sister of Martha and Nancy (who was Margaret\u2019s mother), she was also an aunt. \u00a0So Martha and Mary were great aunts to Ray Salt (George Raymond Salt), son of Margaret and Edward W. Salt, Jr. \u00a0And, ta-da, Mabel who was a daughter of Mary, would have been a first cousin once removed to Ray Salt.\u00a0 In fact, when I searched the censuses, I found Ray living with George and Mary Lane and Mabel in Cincinnati in 1910.\u00a0 He was boarding with them.\u00a0 Ray was a first cousin of my paternal grandfather\u2019s (Henry C. Salt), so the Wileys and Thompsons are not directly related to me but now I know why information about them is in my photo album and family Bible. \u00a0Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In photographing the pictures in one of my old albums I pulled out a small newspaper column, an obituary for a Mabel L. Dodd. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure that it was originally tucked into the frame of one of the pictures, …<\/p>\n<\/a>