Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A fun discovery
Recently I finished writing a history about my 2ggrandfather's second wife--I know, it seems a little extreme, but this genealogy book committee is thorough!---anyway, I felt bad knowing that what I had written was from a family group sheet, some articles from the paper, census records, and an obituary. I kind of mentioned that at the end of the history, that i knew out there somewhere, there was a picture or history or something that we didn't have access to. Engre (the wife) had children, and we knew they had children, but we couldn't locate any descendants, after much perusal on the web, phone calls to people that might have been her relatives, etc. (Now that takes courage!) Anyway, we are weeks away from publication, and lo and behold, Joy finds a letter someone had written to my mom in a file that contained the information about Engre's children. It was sent by a person (now deceased) that was living in Brigham City, but somehow, through this name, the internet and several phone calls we were able to trace her lineage enough to find a relative!! Okay, get this: She just happened to have written a ton of stuff about her family, and she is what we refer to as the "Record Keeper" of her family, and she has been entrusted with family pictures, artifacts, etc. from generations ago!!! so today we are going to meet her for lunch, and we are going to see all her stuff, which she is very willing to share, and we will show her our stuff. Oh, BTW--she lives in the same city I do---less than 5 miles away from me. Cool, huh.
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That is a really cool story.
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