Friday, August 24, 2012

Family History Breakthroughs

Many years ago, my mother's aunt had four children. With every child she had their picture taken and within months of their picture being taken, each child passed away. A few years ago, my father found the names of two of her children through findagrave.com. After years of searching, he never had any more success finding the names of the other two children. Recently he was searching on findagrave.com again and this time there was an email address connected with a picture of a few headstones in the cemetery where he believed all the children were buried. He contacted the lady through her email, explained the situation, a few days later he got an email with a link to a new picture on findagrave.com. She had found a third child. Genealogists and historians understand the quest and the desire to know the facts. We're helpful because we understand how that makes us feel. We share a bond together because we all want to finish the quest. --Gayla Mendenhall