Your family tree is full of couples with their children listed underneath. They make up a nice complete family group.
Right?
Are you SURE you have found the whole family group?
Let’s clarify that family group a bit more.
Your ancestor’s family group is made up of the husband and wife and their known children.
[Note: For this post, I am assuming the usual course of events related to marriage and the birth of children.]
Unfortunately the infant and child mortality was high in the years of our ancestors. Visit any older cemetery and you find many infants and children did not survive past childhood.
Children themselves in the 1800’s and earlier did not generate many records. If a child’s entire life span fell between two census years, the researcher must think “outside of the box” to find a child’s existence and name.
Finding Children Between the Census Years – It is Possible!
Read more at https://lisalisson.com/2014/11/03/finding-children-census-years/