It is such a thrill when you have been working on a family line where you have been stuck and finally make a breakthrough!

James Gorman was the first of several husbands of my great-grandmother, Aline or A-A. There were stories that he was an alcoholic and she kicked him out when their children were young. She made and sold soap during the depression to take care of her family. He may have been married before. He was definitely older than she was.

I was working on another project when I came across this photograph that was labeled as "Jim Gorman and Grandpa Hayden'. We do not have have any Hayden's in our family, so started looking for documents that might have those two names together.

I was not able to find anything with that, but did come across a marriage certificate in Vancouver, Clarke County, Washington. The information on my great-grandmother is correct, with the exception of the spelling of her last name, which was Klatt.

"Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013", James A Gorman and Alice A Clatt, 7 January 1925, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 September 2018).

While they moved around quite a bit in their married life, I had no records of them in Vancouver. I had previously sought marriage records in places where their children had been born and where they had lived during census years to no avail.

I don't know if my grandmother knew where or when her parents were married or didn't want to let anyone know that she was born before her parents were married.

So happy that this hole in my family tree had been filled in and I can move things back another generation!