Never assume that your ancestor went directly from point A to point B. Finances, broken wagons, unexpected opportunities, illnesses (as in the example) or other reasons may have caused your ancestor to pause somewhere along the way.
This pause may have been for a short time or longer–it’s seven years for the family who stopped due to a measles outbreak in 1813. A variety of events along the trip may have drained your ancestor’s finances and necessitated a longer stay along the way than intended.
And sometimes those stays generate records.
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