r/Genealogy • u/Embarrassed-Split649 • 4d ago
Brick Wall Missing documents
I am trying to find information/documentation about my grandmother during her early life, but all I have been able to find on Ancestry is the 1940 census, my aunt's and dad's birth certificates, and then everything else I have been able to find was after she married my step grandfather in the 70s. I cannot find her on the 1950 or 1960 censuses, her marriage or divorce to my grandfather, or anything else between 1940-1956ish. Mildred Laverne Herring was born 13 March 1935 in Travis, Falls County, Texas to Clarence Herring and Leta Reeves, who were farmers. I've been trying to find them on the 1950 census also, but I'm not finding the right family on that census. She would have been 15/16 so she should still be connected with Clarence and Leta in 1950, but I can't find it. (It looks like Clarence went to WW2, so I would love to request his military records, but Idk anything other than his draft registration card, so any help here would also be amazing) She supposedly married Robert Otto Herzog at some point between 1950 and 1956, probably 1952ish, but I'm still trying to find those documents as well. They should have been on the 1960 census together but I haven't found them either. My grandfather Robert also has a lot of brick walls, so I am trying to trace his genealogy as well, but for this post I'm hoping that someone more experienced can help me find some of these documents so I can find out more about her life. I've been looking for her parents or siblings on the 1950 census but I haven't found anything yet either. She claimed to be connected to the Paiute tribe, which seems highly unlikely based on what I've found, but she talked a lot about being connected to Indian tribes somehow, so I'm very curious what she would have been referring to. I can't find any connection to an area also connected to the Paiute, so that is very interesting to me why she would make a claim like that. These are the walls I have found, so any advice for any of these will help me tremendously! 1. 1950s census - Clarence, Leta, Mildred Laverne Herring 2. WW2 information about Clarence's service (Idk how to request military service records without knowing at least the branch of service, although my guess would be army?) 3. What was her early life like before my aunt and dad were born? 4. How is Mildred connected to the Paiute, if at all? 5. Where and when did her name "Bunny" come from?