It’s unlikely your forebears considered themselves “stressed out.” That phrase is a relatively modern one. But what might be a good idea to get some perspective on your ancestor is to pick a year and think about what events might have happened in their life. Did a parent also die the year they married and had their first child? Did their husband, sister, and father both die within a few months of each other (from separate illnesses–which happened to my great-great-grandmother in 1913). Did their mother die from cancer three weeks before they lost their last child in childbirth (as happened to my grandmother)? Think about what else might have been going on in your ancestor’s life or what events might have happened in close proximity to each […]
Is there a word or a phrase that you think you know the meaning of but which you have not actually looked at a definition for in ages? Is it possible that the word does not mean exactly what you think it does? Having an incorrect definition in your head could be why there is a brick wall in your tree?
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