So, I decided I really needed to buckle down and get all my sources and information together to figure this out. I organized it all by the Pray sister it belonged to- Beatrice Mary Pray-Smith, Maude Pray-Stuart, and Louise Marie Pray-Chabin.
I discovered pretty quickly that I had a lot of information to look up for the two sisters.
I found that Marion and Maude moved to Californi sometime in 1924. I found them in the 1930 voter registrations, which also includes their address. I saw that the address was the same in 1928, 1930, and 1932, so I figured it was a fair assumption that they were at that address when the 1930 census was taken.
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| 1930 California Voter Registration List |
So, I realized I was going to have to find their record the old fasioned way, by where they lived. I marked their residence in a map, and Ancestry.com allows you to browse the images, and you can do it by the districts, and it gives the approximate location of the districts. I went through hundreds of images and I finally found it!
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| 1930 US census |
As you can see, their name was incorrectly written in the census (no wonder I couldn't find them easy!) But it gave me great information about their children (ALSO BORN IN MONTANA).
Gold mine.
I discovered that I didn't do much research on Beatrice's line, so I pursued that as well. Smith is, unfortunately, a very common name. Since two of the sisters were in California by 1930, I figured, what are the chances the third is there too? I refined my search to only Los Angeles county, and to a few other specific dates, and I was able to locate Beatrice in the 1930 census.
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| 1930 US census |
She had one child by then, ALSO BORN IN MONTANA.
Now, my goal is to locate where they all lived when their children were born in montana. I found that Marion Stuart registered for WWI in 1917ish while living in Wyoming.
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| Marion Irving Stuart - WWI Registration Card |
Another piece of the puzzle.
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