Golly, there are some interesting stories here.
Hi ya lovetosew, how I wish I had your dad to do the burrowing around and finding more. I try to do the same, look for new ways of finding out more. ...-) |
darkside - Hi Yourself.
Yes, Dad & I were doing this WELL before computers were common place at home, & the internet - CLEARLY NOT. So clearly, no access to databases or online anything. This is the 1980's & very early 1990's I'm talking about here.
Dad's Dad was a hoarder of paperwork ( a hoarder of all sorts of other stuff too), most of it was junk, but amazingly Pop kept a big tin trunk with all sorts of family stuff in it - personal papers, birth certs, photos, military records, school records, marriage info, even maps he marked up with where various family members had lived & when.
He had several books of stuff he has written over very many years, about family members too. That was a trove of info, as you could imagine. Hence the road trips I referred to, to churches & schools & tiny towns to piece things together.
Pop was known in the family as the deposit of all types of records, so as each family member died or there was no one else to keep the stuff, it all got sent to Pop.
Pop must have had a confidence that someone else would continue to keep these family records, & we all benefit from him doing so... The big tin trunk became unuseable, but the info in it, wow!
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