Posts in December 19, 2024

If you are fortunate enough to find a newspaper reference to a family reunion that lists all the attendees, determine their connection to each other. A 1930s reference to a family reunion for one of my family contained the names of nearly eighty relatives. I thought they were all descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents. But when I went through the list, there were several individuals I could not connect to the known descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents (occasionally a friend of the family, long-time neighbor, or significant other of a relative will also attend). A little research indicated that three of those “non-relatives” were related to each other. Because of that they were researched a little further and their ancestry traced a few generations further back. It turned […]