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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He wasn’t. But I realized that I had written about the sibling of our common ancestor for a recent issue of Casefile Clues<\/em> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}