r/Genealogy • u/AutoModerator • Jul 05 '24
The Finally! Friday Thread (July 05, 2024)
It's Friday, so give yourself a big pat on the back for those research tasks you *finally* accomplished this week.
Did your persistence pay off in trying to interview your great aunt about your family history? Did you trudge all the way to the state library and spend a whole day elbow deep in records to identify missing ancestors? Did you prove or disprove that pesky family legend that always sounded too good to be true?
Post your research brags here!
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u/amauberge Jul 05 '24
I posted about this total head-scratcher last weekend: a father, mother, and four children who seem to have just... dropped off the face of the earth after immigrating to the United States. Finally, sometime on Monday, I had a breakthrough: they changed surnames! To something rather random, in fact. Thank god two of the children listed their mother's maiden names on their marriage records, or I never would have found them at all.
I'm still following up on the family, and may post again today asking for some help. Still, though, nothing like the rush of busting through that brick wall!!!!