I’ve had Gmail since 2004. Recently while searching it for some correspondence from a few months ago, I also discovered correspondence with a relative regarding our common ancestors from 2017. There was nothing new in that correspondence that had been neglected, but I did realize that I had lost touch with the relative. Seeing their message reminded me that I had never asked him if our common ancestors had a family Bible of which he was aware.
He wasn’t. But I realized that I had written about the sibling of our common ancestor for a recent issue of Casefile Clues and that I should send him that issue along with what I had discovered. I also realized that it might be time to keep a spreadsheet of my correspondence, something which I have never done. I also remembered that before the cloud was quite the thing it is now that I was in the habit of emailing myself images of documents I had made. Those are also buried in my email.
I’ve decided to search through my old emails for ancestral names and the like and to track those searches in a spreadsheet. There’s probably some leads, correspondence, and documents that need filing and follow-up. There may be clues buried in my old emails.
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