Who the Hey is Nancy??

I spend a lot of time googling. More times than not - I end up right where I've been before. I guess you'd would call it "spinning my wheels." That is, until something like this happens.

Thomas Wright McNeff and William McNeff were Polly's sons. They were both born in Kentucky - and moved to Indiana sometime before their marriages - both in 1824. William married Mary Chamberlain. Now usually, I'd stare at them on the "M" page of the index, but last week, I ended up on the "C" page. And there, just two entries under William and Mary was Samuel Chamberlain, who married Nancy McMiff.

McMiff?

Now I've seen records of my McNeffs spelled McNiff, McNaff, M'Neff ... and I know there are other variants out there. But apparently, McMiff is actually a name. But that close to my McNeff?

I corresponded with the webmaster Barbara Ziegenmeyer, who researches McNeffs too. She found it as odd as I did. So, I headed down to the LDS Genealogy Library armed with a call number Barbara gave me.

And there it said Nancy ... McNipp!?

Frustrated, I pulled every film relevant to Harrison County, Indiana marriages. I stuck the first one of the 5 on the reader, and it was the original hand-written ledger.

Yes my friends, it said Nancy McNiff. She married Samuel Chamberlain on Feb 1, 1821, 3 years before William married a Chamberlain.

So who is she? I have no idea. Could she be a sister? John T and Polly married in 1798 and Thomas wasn't born until 1800 ... William 1805.

Polly's usually a nickname ... could I finally have found a trace of her after the divorce?

More questions than answers. More questions than answers.