Posts in July 11, 2025

For years, I struggled to find where a set of third great-grandparents ended up in Missouri after they left Illinois in the 1870s. The couple was in their early fifties, so it seemed to make sense to focus on locating their grown children. Tracking down their children who went to Missouri did not help as the parents could not be found in any of those locations. It ended up that they did follow relatives into a Missouri county where they had relatives. They ended up not living near one of their children, but near one my third great-grandmother’s sisters.