Genealogy Helps and Lookups: AF-1228: The Years the Records Forgot

There are times in genealogy when the records speak clearly. Names line up, dates behave, and places make sense. You can follow a life forward with little resistance.

Then there are times when the trail stops.

Not with a dramatic ending. Not with a warning. Just silence.

That silence is not rare. It shows up in nearly every serious family history project, and it is where many family trees start to drift away from evidence.

This story sits inside that silence. It is about a man named Samuel Carter, a name common enough to create its own challenge. When a name is shared by many people, it becomes easier to attach the wrong records to the right person, especially when there is a gap and you want to close it quickly.

The goal here is not to invent what happened in the missing years. The goal is to learn how to handle missing years without turning guesses into facts...

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