Lola asked:
Unexpected places can lead to great breakthroughs, like checking my gr-gr-gr-grandfather’s brother’s commitment to an county old age home, led me to discover they weren’t the only ones to come to America? What led you to your breakthroughs?
A source that really helped me was my grandmother’s funeral book. Her sister who died a short time later filled in the family section.
Lee
Unexpected places can lead to great breakthroughs, like checking my gr-gr-gr-grandfather’s brother’s commitment to an county old age home, led me to discover they weren’t the only ones to come to America? What led you to your breakthroughs?
A source that really helped me was my grandmother’s funeral book. Her sister who died a short time later filled in the family section.
Lee
Tags: Genealogy, Old Age Home, Unexpected Places
A pub in Dundalk, Ireland, where I learned more about my family lineage than I did from any other source.
That my 2nd great-grandfather was a deserter in the Civil War. Not unusual you say….well, you would be right except that…. he was a deserter from BOTH the Confederate Army AND the Union Army.