How wild. I just had a distant cousin email me, one I'd never met. She and I were swapping geneaology info. It was pretty exciting to me. All of our info matched, except she didn't have some of the details I did. Like how did I know where my great grandfather came from (in Germany), or my great grandmother's maiden name. She had never had any luck trying to track down info on our last name.
I knew where she was coming from. I couldn't find anything at first either. But I was lucky enough to have a copy of my grandfather's birth certificate. That led me down a certain path that got me a marriage license, a death certificate, burial plots, etc. Who knew you could get a marriage license from 1886? Too cool.
So my family got one person larger today.
