That sounds like me and my efforts to reconstruct my dad’s life. He was born in 1890, so there isn’t even a birth certificate.
Right now, I’m hot on the trail of his time as local Kiwanis president, and though I have the paperwork, I need a pin to go with it.
Next will be his school records, if I can find them, and whatever records the church has of him. It just takes so long to find “places” to get information.
Hi ‘Face
Is there a national census database you could use?