Posts in January 2, 2022

A distant relative contacted me out of the blue and in reviewing a chart he sent on the descendants of my aunt’s husband’s parents, I realized I had information on several of that man’s nephews and nieces because the names were familiar to me. I had heard the names before and I knew where. They were not all in my database. They were all in my head. Even though two names were in my database, I didn’t search for them based on their name. I searched on them based on their relationship to me : wife of my second great-grandfather’s brother, wife of my second great-grandfather’s brother’s first cousin, man who attempted to homestead with a different second great-grandfather. Fortunately I had written about the homesteader situation and […]