Family history

Data Inventory

Complete inventory of all ancestry-related data assets. Each tagged with source, type, reliability, and suggested use.

Genetic Data

File Source Type Reliability Suggested Use
(no genetic data on file yet)

Genealogical Documents

High Reliability (official records, primary sources)

Document Family Location Transcription
Ira Mollett Giles death certificate (TX, 1970) Giles Eggers/death-certificate.jpg Ira_Mollett_Giles
Joseph Gibson Vaughan death certificate (MO, 1918) Vaughan Fulghum/vaughan-death-certificate.jpeg Joseph_Gibson_Vaughan_Death_Certificate_1918

Moderate Reliability (newspaper, secondary sources)

Document Family Location Transcription
"The Best of Times" memoir by Gale Fulghum (2004) Fulghum Fulghum/The Best of Times - Gale Fulghum (2004).pdf (6.3 MB) (not yet transcribed)
Samuel Gibson Vaughan gun affidavit (1965) Vaughan Fulghum/vaughan-gun-letter.png Vaughan_Gun_Affidavit_1965

Low Reliability (anecdotal, interpreted)

Document Family Notes
Photograph: "papa-alaska.jpg" Eggers Undated photograph; no caption or metadata

Vault Research Notes

19 markdown files in vault-template/

Source Document Archive

Collection Files Size Location OCR Status
Fulghum family 3 ~7 MB Fulghum/ Memoir: not yet OCR'd. Death cert + affidavit: transcribed (Claude multimodal)
Eggers family 2 616 KB Eggers/ Death cert: transcribed

What's Missing (Acquisition Priorities)

See Open_Questions for the full list. Top gaps:

  1. Gale Fulghum birth certificate ($15) — would resolve "Jack" vs. Clinton Orrill as father
  2. Frances Blanche Jones Vaughan's parents (death certificate, $15)
  3. DAR lineage application for Doris Vaughan Fulghum ($20)
  4. Jean Eggers maiden name (1930 census or marriage record)
  5. Clinton Woodward Orrill records (Sedgwick County marriage, 1920; census; death index)
  6. Genetic data (raw genome, ethnicity estimates) from any DNA testing provider