Discovery of new people or information.
New discoveries in the family line have been been rare this year. I have quite a few documents that I’ve discovered that I haven’t fully investigated to find new bits of info, and many leads through ancestry.com that I haven’t explored. This morning, however, I took some time take a…
Researching genealogy is tricky, because it’s not as if all the records for everyone exist somewhere. That’s just not the case, especially when you’re researching lives from hundreds of years ago. And even if all the records exist for all my ancestors (which they don’t, but let’s assume) they aren’t…
As I mentioned previously, sometimes I pick a person at the end of a line and focus on researching their life, hoping to find clues about them or beyond them. For several weeks now I’ve been looking for more hints about Marianna Vinci, my 3x-great-grandmother from Cefalu, Sicily, specifically when…
Digging a little deeper, I found another generation back in Sicily, but that lead to a little confusion about a woman’s surname.
It took a Polish researcher and lots of studying the ever-changing borders of Polish and Prussian geography, to locate the tiny farmlands of my great-grandfather’s early days.
How it took decades for my Sicilian born grandfather to get his citizenship, and only a day for my American grandmother to lose hers.
After years of stagnated research, one site has opened up a whole new path to generations past.
