<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Need to unsubscribe?</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> Manage here</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">. </span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Genealogy Blog Update</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">9 Sept 2026</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** The Whys that are not There</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Full-Text Searching at FamilySearch--5 Week Class</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Metes and Bounds and AI--new release date</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Virginia Births in 1640 Can Exhaust Major League Players</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Upcoming Trips--Join Us!</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Updated Webinar List</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The Whys that are not There</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The records our ancestors left behind only tell us a part of the story. One has to be careful reading more into documents than is actually there.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Johann George Trautvetter and his wife Sophia Elisabeth (Derle) Trautvetter immigrated from Wohlmuthausen, Thuringen, Germany, in June of 1853 with their three sons and one daughter. They arrived in July of 1853 in Baltimore and immediately settled in Hancock County, Illinois, where they purchased property. Approximately in 1869 Johann George returned to Germany and died there in 1871. His funeral entry in the church register at Bad Salzungen indicated that he had returned to Germany and left his wife and family in America.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">He and Sophia sold their farm to their youngest son in the late 1860s. No reason is given. It could have been as simple as they were retiring, wanted to avoid the eventual costs of an estate settlement, and needed the money from the sale.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">And I really can\u2019t speculate as to why he returned. There\u2019s no diaries, family letters, or records that provide any specifics. Did he return for a visit and become too ill to return to his family? Was he unhappy in America? Was the marriage an unhappy one? Did he want to return to Germany while Sophia refused to leave her children? While the biography of one of their sons simply says Johann George \u201creturned for a visit\u201d to Germany and died there, that explanation may have been one that put a positive spin on his travels and looked better in publication than the actual situation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">All I have are records. I don\u2019t have reasons.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">And I\u2019m hesitant to spin a story explaining someone\u2019s behavior when that person is dead and gone and did not leave reasons behind.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">There are times where it\u2019s a little easier to see the probable reasons behind someone\u2019s behavior even if those reasons are not stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">It\u2019s slightly different when a woman with small children is widowed by her husband in the 1850s and remarries in short order. In that case it\u2019s reasonable that economics forced her hand. The same is likely true of a widower in a similar situation during the same time period.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">A young male who leaves Prussia in the late 1860s probably did so to escape serving in the Prussian Army. Probably. But is there anything specifically stating that he did? Such a story may be in a biography, obituary, or family story passed down through the generations. And even the family story may have been started by relatives long after the immigrant himself was dead.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Try and stick with the facts as evidenced by records as much as possible. In some cases there is an amazing amount of detail in what records <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">are</em> left behind without trying to \u201cfigure out\u201d what else happened without any sources to back it up.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Would you want your descendant taking the documented details of your life and spinning stories around them?</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><i>Don't forget: </i></font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(70,112,127)"><li 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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Using AI for Metes and Bounds Deed Analysis</i></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_msvf9x2o0" alt="image.png" width="478" height="127" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do deeds with metes and bounds descriptions give you headaches? 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</span></p></font></div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Virginia Births in 1640 Can Exhaust Major League Ball Players</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mtvlylyk0" alt="image.png" width="300" height="252" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">We\u2019ve mentioned \u201cexhaustive search\u201d several times in various posts on this blog. Generally it\u2019s the idea that you search all records that would reasonably expect to provide information to assist in answering a specific research question. Genealogy professionals and academics espouse the \u201cexhaustive search\u201d as a part of the Genealogical Research Standard.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Exhaustive search does necessarily mean that you have to obtain every document that might contain the event date or location for which you are looking. It usually means getting that record that\u2019s most likely to provide you with the best information (usually original source, primary information, reliable informant). \u201cMost likely\u201d and \u201cbest\u201d are not as well-defined as some us would like, but genealogy research is full of terms that are sometimes necessarily vague. That\u2019s part of the way in which genealogy is part art and not just science.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Many times an exhaustive search is location and time period sensitive. If I\u2019m trying to establish the birth date for my grandmother born in Illinois in 1924, it\u2019s probably sufficient to obtain her birth certificate. Probably\u2013unless there\u2019s something unusual about it. There\u2019s another problem\u2013I don\u2019t know what\u2019s unusual about a 1924 birth certificate unless I\u2019ve seen several from that same time period. That\u2019s another reason to research more than just a very narrow band of people.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">What\u2019s exhaustive changes when the problem is establishing a parentage in Virginia in 1640. That\u2019s a whole different ball game from a research standpoint (a 1924 Illinois birth is usually junior high softball compared to the Major League Baseball of establishing a 1640 birth in Virginia). Frankly it\u2019s a time to look for everything you can on that person and their probable family. Everything. Whatever record you can get whether it could mention any detail of the birth or not</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I\u2019ve long been a proponent of when I\u2019m really stuck to look at everything. Even if something on that list of \u201ceverything\u201d might not answer the particular question. Everything.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">That\u2019s how I used a 1909 christening record to establish that someone was alive in 1953. 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