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Originally Posted by JakeTulane

Wow Zimmy.. .you are finding some great stuff. smiles. That is wonderful. Are you going through ancestry.com? I had thought you mentioned that in another post. That is who My Dad went through as well as ordering books and writing letters to different places. My maternal side is Italian. My maternal grandparents (both deceased) were from Sicily, Italy. My (biological) father's side is Scottish and Irish.

Good morning Jake - the conversation in here regarding ancestry searches is very interesting. I wonder, is that site you speak of, "ancestry.com" a paid site, so much as it is by membership format?

I have my own little story and will try to offer the Reader's Digest version.
A week ago I was out cemetery hopping and taking photos in the countryside. Found a new cemetery and within the first glance saw my family name on a headstone, and then another and another and another.
It was a wonderful feeling. I am not sure if this line of the family is connected, but since I have a box full of papers I began as a teenager, it's worth finding out.
There was an older gentleman on the grounds who offered a hello, and by chance I said, good day and mentioned my excitement at finding my family name. When he found out who it was, he told me he was one of them.
W-O-W. Then he says, come in to the church, you gotta meet my wife. So off I go, and just by chance, it was their turn to clean the church, this little white church in the middle of nowhere.
As it happens, there is a family reunion at the end of July and they are looking for a couple missing links.
Who knows? I might be the one holding the key!


As a sidenote, I wonder if a genealogy thread might be of interest to any of the kitchen peeps that are doing their own searches. It might be neat to share your own great links, or stories of finds.

Just a thought, on less than a cup of coffee (oh my!)

Have a good one, all.