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Velma G. (Caskey) Cooper

Catalog ID p.2426 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2426/

Velma G. (Caskey) Cooper married Thomas Benjamin Cooper.

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Thomas Benjamin CooperThomas Benjamin Cooper1912–1988Velma G. (Caskey) CooperVelma G. (Caskey) Cooper

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ancestry all 2026-10-19 · HIS MARRIAGE TO Velma G. (Caskey) Cooper VELMA GRACE CASKEY - the gap the sweep's worklist carried at 'no search recorded'. JURISDICTION...
Searched for: HIS MARRIAGE TO Velma G. (Caskey) Cooper VELMA GRACE CASKEY - the gap the sweep's worklist carried at 'no search recorded'. JURISDICTION CHECKED FIRST THIS TIME: he was born and raised at Corsicana, NAVARRO CO., TEXAS [F.333], she was born in TRINITY CO., TEXAS [F.332], and their son was born in 1932 when she was 17 ⇒ a Texas marriage, c. 1930-1932, almost certainly Navarro or Trinity County. Ancestry CARD CATALOG, keyword 'texas marriage' - 88 collections - to pick the instrument rather than guess it. Three are county marriage sets: 9168 'Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965' (14,909,607 records), 61383 'Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1817-1965' (2,083,033), and 'Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965' (3,185,816). (a) coll. 9168, ?name=Velma_Caskey&count=50 - 18 rows, ALL READ. (b) coll. 9168 COVERAGE, from the collection's own published source list at /search/collections/9168/moreinfo. (c) coll. 61383, ?name=Velma_Caskey&count=50; then ?name=_Caskey&count=20 as the coverage diagnostic - 113 rows over 6 pages, PAGE 1 (20) READ.
Result: NULL IN BOTH - AND IN THE FIRST IT IS PURE COVERAGE, PROVED FROM THE COLLECTION'S OWN COUNTY LIST. (a) The 18 rows for 'Velma Caskey' in coll. 9168 are every one of them a WILLIAM Caskey (plus two Kasko/Kaska): the engine found no Velma at all and fell back on the surname. The counties on them are Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Williamson. (b) AND THAT IS BECAUSE HER COUNTY IS NOT IN THE COLLECTION. The collection publishes its sources - 47 named counties - and the list runs Anderson, Bexar, Brazoria, Burnet, Cameron, Collin, Culberson, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Erath, Fort Bend, Franklin, Grayson, Gregg, Harris, Hays, Hidalgo, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Jefferson, Johnson, Kaufman, Kerr, Llano, Lubbock, McLennan, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Orange, Red River, Reeves, Rockwall, Shelby, Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Titus, Travis, Tyler, Upshur, Victoria, Washington, Wichita, Williamson. NEITHER NAVARRO NOR TRINITY IS AMONG THEM. Texas has 254 counties; this collection holds 47. ⇒ A COVERAGE GAP, NOT A NULL ABOUT THEM, and the 14.9-million-record size is exactly what makes that counter-intuitive. (c) coll. 61383 returns zero for Velma Caskey, and its surname-only list shows a DIFFERENT and mostly older county set - Willacy, Stephens, Shackelford, Henderson, Bell, Milam, Mitchell, Coryell, Hill, McLennan, Lampasas. THAT IS A PAGE-1 READ OF 6 PAGES AND IS NOT WRITTEN AS A COVERAGE FINDING: 61383 publishes no source list, so its counties can only be inferred from results, and 93 rows went unread. Navarro and Trinity simply did not appear. WHAT IS LEFT, and it is not another Ancestry search: the Navarro County Clerk's marriage records at Corsicana (and Trinity Co. at Groveton) direct, or FamilySearch's own Texas county marriage films, or a Corsicana newspaper licence/announcement column for 1930-1932 - the same instrument that dated Lewis Cooper's marriage this morning ([J.561]).

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