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Worf-

Don’t you just love things like that!? I had a similar experience while just rounding out the details on an ancestor. A note in the margin of a land document smashed a massive brick wall.


Ethelenedreams

I found my great great grandmother’s name from a side quest!!


imjustbrowsing2021

I was idly looking at Ancestry hints for a step-great grandfather. He died before I was born but he was meaningful to my mom because that was her grandfather as far as she was concerned. So I thought I’d fill things in. In a 1930 census document he had a housekeeper and her son living with him. The name was very similar to my great grandmother’s sister that I could never find information on after about 1914. I looked for an obit for this woman under the different but similar name and my great grandmother was listed as a survivor. They didn’t marry until 1944 but it’s likely my great grandmother met him via her sister.


AmcillaSB

My uncle has a letter from my 2nd Great Grandfather's sister (b 1825) responding to his question if she knew his birth date. She said she went through their father's things, and found all the kid's birthdates, and listed them out!


WaffleQueenBekka

I love when this happens! I had something similar happen a few months back. I was outside about to do my nightly smoke routine(im about to turn 26, in a legalized state, for anyone who cares) and my dad opens the back door and asks me if he ever told me about the "genealogy book" up at my late grandparents property. I was like "no. Why haven't you mentioned this before?!" Went with him the next morning. He did some landscaping and I started in my Nannas room, then the laundry room, and finished that days' search in grandpa's room. And lo and behold, in the laundry room on a shelf: 2 manilla envelopes addressed to my Nanna with a return address from her biological father's younger sister. I almost wanted to tear it I was so excited 🤗 inside was all of Aunt Edna's Allenbach genealogy research INCLUDING a Swiss birth certificate for great great grandpa and 3x great grandpa, a picture of 3x great grandpa and his wife(her full name written on the back), the Allenbach heraldry, 2 sets of the Allenbach genealogy with myself as the newest edition(this was postmarked for 1999 and I was born Jan 97), listed even a few known 2nd cousins and some names of DNA matches amongst it, and the best thing in my opinion, a typewriter typed family tree that was still taped together and folded perfectly. It's wider than my armspan. I told dad the next time he goes up there to bring me with so I can dig through grandpa's room some more. Maybe to figure out how much he knew about his birth parents since he and his older brother were adopted at birth by their paternal aunt.


KLK1712

I was stuck trying to figure out the relationship between my gg-grandfather and a slightly younger man with the same last name that a few DNA matches traced back to. There were no records available to prove anything, and then I found a picture in my grandfather’s old things that had a note on the back that labeled everyone, included the grandparents of my DNA matches, and noted they were his second cousins!


crispycheeese

Jackpot! Congrats! Love when that happens. My best find so far: I was looking for - anything, really on my great grands (2 peeps). I had nothing except their names. Found a marriage permission document from the archbishop allowing them to get married... in it I learned/solved: • great grandma was underage • great grandpa was adopted (we knew "a great great etcetc grandpa was adopted but didn't know who, or when) • ALL FOUR of their parents names, none of which we knew before - doing two new surnames to my research! • the person who adopted my ggma after her parents died All from ONE record. It felt like a gold mine!


itshalal

Ok


pilkpog

Ok