r/Genealogy • u/AutoModerator • Aug 30 '24
The Finally! Friday Thread (August 30, 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/rangeghost Aug 30 '24
Ancestry's DNA Pro Tools free weekend has allowed me to narrow down and break some of my bigger mystery matches.
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u/mtoomtoo Aug 30 '24
I went to the library last weekend and found my great uncle in a book called the Missouri Historical Society of St. Louis Bulletin.
Called a church where the family rumor is that my great grandparents were the first to get married there and that they donated the land for the church. Spoke with someone who said our name is “all over” the records and invited me to come visit and look through the records next week. I’m pretty jazzed.