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Here are a few tips for learning the names of a person's parents:


 * Why?
 * More records were created around a person's death
 * Death related records usually give birth and marriage information which can lead to parents
 * Death certificates ask for names of parents
 * Obituaries usually identify the parents


 * Why?
 * Marriage records -- especially those after about 1900 -- often give names of parents
 * Marriages were recorded from the time the county was formed


 * Why?
 * Brothers and sisters had the same parents. Their records may have your answer.

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