Stumbling block? Broken bridge?...

Stumbling blocks, bridges that are broken and most of all poor documentation due to spelling...blah, blah, blah

I am not at my wits-end just confused? There is not enough time in the day to do family search. For those of you that do it here and there I am not sure how it happens. I can miss a day and it seems that all thoughts and information gathered is completely gone from this old mind of mine. Yes, I call it an ole'folk moment -LOL.

I have tried sooOOoo hard to find my late cousin Helen-Healon Womack Shars-Shears and Henry Womack's first wife, Silva ?? (Womack) which could have been Helen's mother. I am unclear of whether or not Helen was listed as a boy. I do know that 'Heland' fall of the face of God's Precious earth, if I may and that I can not find records of Helen's birth any where . Perhaps I shall move on to the next person and pick on those precious family members of mine at a later time.

So, from this point on I will not call this a stumbling block or a bridge that is broken, I will just say this a stopping point and again, I will return to research them at a later time.

To God be ALL Glory...happy researching to you all!

Some NEWS is good NEWS! Can't wait!

It had been a while since I had gone to library. I do enjoy the at home research, the convenience I guess but getting out periodically is good. It gives you chance to gather new information and to get the opinions of others. So, I got to the library today and I guess I had the "I am lost look" on my face. When he, the librarian approached me he ask "if I needed some help?". I said yes, actually I do. I had stop researching the person I was initially researching and had started researching "Helen Womack". I am insistent upon on finding her birth. I researched her from the age of nine years old to her adult age. He got on the computer clicking through things and clicking through some more things. I was standing there looking like okay, what is he doing. Then I thought, he is professional. So, I stood there patiently. By the time he was done he had given me the possible news as to why I can't not find "Helen Womack's" Census before nine years of age which was "she may have listed as a male, Heland Womack". I had given up on looking up "Heland", it was like he (?) had fallen off of the face of the earth. So, lesson learned today. He, the librarian had even mentioned that "his Grandmother was listed as a male". I guess I am not surprised because of the education disadvantage our ancestors endured. If this is the case, I will be checking up on other family members. I can not wait until he contacts me. Getting this news will just about complete the life of Helen-Healon Womack Shars-Shears.

This is the Census that is in question. If it is her, she would have been 3 years of age.

Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears' (ClM) husband - John Shears??

 

Though they resided together, there was not a marriage record found to prove that John and Helen were ever married.

 

 

Registration Card for John

 

He died in 1938...

 



 

His children w/Josephine Shannon

 

 

Ardell Shears

 

b. Marshall, Harrison, Texas 1909

 

d. Dallas, Dallas, Texas 1966

(he was the informant on Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears' death certificate)

 

 

John Henry Shears

 

b. Dallas, Dallas, Texas 1911

 

d. no record as of this date

(it appeared he was a twin child)



The Beginning - Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears - The daughter of John Womack??

 

As we all know that some of the slave and African American births were not documented if they child was a illegitimate (Blob ref# 139) or that was a slave birth (mulatto child). I searched and searched...and I found no birth records of Healon/Helen.

 

ancestry.com and familysearch.com, Blog ref# P2, C1 104 and 109

 



H*len Womack/Wom*

 

Hel* Womack/Wom*

H*len Wammack/Wamack, and other variations of 'Womack'

 

Hel* Wammack/Wamack, and other variations of 'Womack'

 

*elen, all variations of 'Womack'

 

*llen, all viairations of 'Womack'

 

Healon, all variations of 'Womack'

 

Helen, all viariations of 'Womack'

 

All variations of 'Helen' and all variations of 'Womack', together

 

Father search, with all variations of 'John Womack' and 'Henry Womack'

 

Mother search, with all variations of 'Emma' and 'Nellie Montague'

 

All variations of 'Womack', female, black/negro children b. abt. 1898 - 1900

 

...and all of the above searches in Marshall, Harrison, Texas and other County that the parents may have been born in.



 

Doodling and research...Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears

Doodling and research...