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Our Family History

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
Fulghum/ClayAncestryDNA.txt AncestryDNA V2.0 array Raw genotype (434,837 SNPs) High (primary lab data) Upload to GEDmatch, MyHeritage, FamilySearch for cross-platform matching; haplogroup extraction via third-party tools

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