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Every box is a person. The line runs from Samuel E. Cochran of Georgia, born in 1859, down to Joel and his sons. Lines joining two boxes mean a marriage; lines dropping down lead to their children.
The tree is the short version. The library holds the full work: the Samuel dossier, every family line report, the certificate readings, the Georgia search, the library index pull, the Chopko search, the police link, and the grave and plot research. Each report stands in full, including what remains unproven.
Built 2026-10-25 from Joel's own account + records already on file.
Read the full reportJoel Cochran's great-great-grandfather. Compiled 2026-10-25 from free public records only. No Ancestry, no paid sources, no paid library requests. Every claim carries its source. Anything not proven is labeled CANDIDATE or NOT...
Read the full reportCompiled 2026-10-25 for Joel Cochran's family tree. Deceased ancestors and public
Read the full reportResearch pass completed 2026-10-25. Question from Joel Cochran: his proven ancestor Samuel E. Cochran was born in Georgia in 1859 and moved to Indiana by 1889. Where did the family live before Georgia?
Read the full reportResearched 2026-10-25. Free public sources only. No Ancestry records were used as evidence (Ancestry search-result snippets were treated as pointers only and are labeled candidate wherever they are the sole support). No paid...
Read the full reportSource: St. Joseph County Public Library Obituary Index, https://www2.sjcpl.org/db/obits/recordlist (surname search COCHRAN returned 91 records; the fragment search also catches COCHRANE and Cochran as a maiden/former name;...
Read the full reportThe tree and the reports rest on paper: death certificates, marriage records, court opinions, and the rest of the trail. Those documents stand here in full, grouped by family line, each one the record itself, exactly as it was found.