John T. Napper

Try Google. Put his name in several different ways and also include his wife in a few. You will be amazed as to what pops up. Good luck to you! Occasionally I even add the birthdate and place of birth if I know it.

Thanks Nesa for the suggestion I have tried that to no avail even using his kids nothing pops up for him.

Hi Crystal,

In Geni here are a few things that will help the system to find potential matches and also help people to find your profiles.

* Put in as much information as you can - dates and locations
* Add in in-laws and expand their family as much as possible (this may allow you to link to another tree that could add valuable information to your tree)
* For women - put in maiden name (birth name) and married name into Geni
* Don't put in . on initials
* Add nicknames and other spellings in the aka field
* Add a link to any profile that you mention - people can use that link to go straight to the profile John T. Napper
* Ensure deceased profiles are public

Leanne

Crystal, it sounds like you've made an exhaustive search for John T Nappers in Kentucky.
The most obvious answer is that the 1880 census data is inaccurate as to his place of origin and that he was nor originally from Kentucky. That won't make finding him easier. Where was Amanda from?
Another possibility is that he may be in the 1870 census under his middle name, any clue what the T=?

Alex,

Amanda is from Indiana. Her grandfather is actually one of the first people to move to OR. You would hope that there was a lot of information on Amanda and John but there is very little. All I have is their marriage record which is from Jackson County Indiana they were married on August 14,1875 and the 1880 census. I have gotten every death certificate on all the children expect Minnie as she vanishes with her dad. Every obit to no help. I have no clue what the T.He uses it in the census but not his marriage record. I did not kind him in KY or IN in 1870 that was five years before he married Amanda or Mandy she went by both. Really at a loss where to go. Even my DNA shows no Napper's so i am lost

Crystal Ann England It took me quite a while to figure out my Kentucky people and I certainly don’t have them all, but I can share some of the methods I used to get as far as I have gotten.

1. Completely record in Geni profiles every bit of data on him & wife. Upload the record images (Census, Marriage, land ...). I’ve noticed things at 4th Read I didn’t before!

2. Read up on the Migration patterns: who went where from where, even through the generations, and why. I learned that my Howton branch went from Eastern TN > Western KY > Oregon trail. In other words, no Indiana, my guys were following a different Migration trail and probably for different reasons.

3. Punt. Find out everything you can about the wife’s family. People were not in a vacuum.

4. Pay a lot of attention to Occupation, especially crafts & trades, and religion. If you know a child was a Methodist for instance chances are his parents were also, and not Quakers. I broke a wall by following a line of gunsmiths. The name Willard I knew had derived from Woolard, that’s not the least bit intuitive. :)

Kentucky was originally part of Virginia, but there was a big out Migration from Maryland when the territory was opened up by Daniel Boone.

Conversely, Indiana was a Free State, anti slavery. You didn’t go there if guy wanted to keep your slave labor. So you now know something new & important about him. Record it.