When I first began my Chugg family research, my grandmother Backman was my primary source. On more than one occasion my research has borne out that I am a fallible human in research. Love her to goodness, grandmother was also.
Irene Annie Treharne, she told me had married someone with the name Waterhouse, and had had two sons, Raymond and Howard, whom I forever after sought for under Raymond Waterhouse and Howard Waterhouse.
Well, today for some reason I opened up this line of research again and found Irene married to Raymond W. Foster in Ogden Utah in 1913. FOSTER! Maybe that W would be the Waterhouse key.
It was not, it is West, his mother's maiden name. But, I found a census showing that she had married a Mr. Waterhouse! But Raymond had been a stepchild in that family as well, and his name was Raymond West Foster, their sons Raymond W Foster, Jr and Howard John Foster.
So I begin research now on a new path, with new information, after backtracking.
We can view it as bad research, or that we are human researchers. I'll take the latter, and remind that baktracking can be - is - a research tool!
Tell me your news! We've been apart too long!
I am adding a note after a weekend and several days: having given this family a flurry of attention, I again have come to an end of the path.
This I know (or believe I do)
Raymond West Foster, Jr, b. 9 Apr 1914, Ogden, d. 20 May 1974, Inyo co, CA
Howard John Foster, b. 1 Dec 1916, Ogden, d. 12 Jan 1986, Orange co, CA
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