Genealogy Gains
Sep. 20th, 2023 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrI'm still not over this cold or feeling much better. I only had enough mental energy to trawl through Newspapers and save matching articles to Ancestry. Today I learned my great-grandfather's sister's daughter's husband (that's the husband of my 1st cousin 2x removed) was a prominent naturopathic doctor here in Calgary. He was frequently quoted in newspaper articles on nutrition, plus he was part of a public speaking club and the Cosmopolitan Club (a service organization). It's funny to think I saw his name in the paper and had no idea we were related. Had I known we had relatives here, Mom and I might have had coffee with him before he passed in 2005. My cousin passed away in 1991 alas. Their children are still alive and I'm unsure if I should reach out to them at the moment.
Ancestry's hint system coughed up a gravestone for my great-grandfather's sister, even though I searched Find A Grave pretty thoroughly. And although I looked through the provincial death indexes previously, during my second look, I found the death date I was missing for one of my great-grandfather's brothers. Find A Grave doesn't have all the graves btw--Family Search pointed me towards BillionGraves. A grave is listed that matches the name and locale, buuuuuuut the death year was worn away by time or weather. I may be spending another $5 on a death certificate to confirm it's my relative :-D
Ancestry's hint system coughed up a gravestone for my great-grandfather's sister, even though I searched Find A Grave pretty thoroughly. And although I looked through the provincial death indexes previously, during my second look, I found the death date I was missing for one of my great-grandfather's brothers. Find A Grave doesn't have all the graves btw--Family Search pointed me towards BillionGraves. A grave is listed that matches the name and locale, buuuuuuut the death year was worn away by time or weather. I may be spending another $5 on a death certificate to confirm it's my relative :-D
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Date: 2023-09-21 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-22 05:06 pm (UTC)It's always weird for me to message someone and say "Hey, I'm your cousin". The worst is they block me or say "That's nice" but I also don't want to intrude...and looking folks up on Facebook feels a bit stalkerly, LOL!
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Date: 2023-09-22 09:00 pm (UTC)it definitely isn't weird, since people usually have their first and last name on facebook (it's not, like, a deep dive where you found someone's private account without their name anywhere on it). it's very normal to want to look someone up online when you hear about them for the first time. and they might react very positively, you'll never know (۶•̀ᴗ•́)۶