Ancestry/Genealogy

and share the information. You wouldn't believe how important just one link can be.

My husband's family had been looking for the daughter of the original family that came over from Germany. We had information on everyone else, but could not find her. One night, out of the blue, I entered the g-g-grandfather's name in a search engine and the place where he was born. Up popped his daughter's name and a brief history of what happened to her...from the Middle East, no less. She had married and had 3 children, but then disappeared. It turned out she and her mother had both died of some horrible flu or condition. Her husband took the children to Indiana or Ohio, can't remember, and the husband, as well as the 3 children never married, so the trail was lost.

There is SO much information in an obit and it sometimes takes one bit of info to connect to another tree. I am presently entering 4 sides of our family (will get serious after the holidays) and hope to finish before I die. It is fascinating.