I'm working on the same family as I worked on last week because somehow, someway, I lost the data. I backed it up before I went out of town, but the back-up doesn't have all of the new data. While it is very frustrating, I've discovered information this time that I didn't last time because I'm slowly adding the family back to the tree. Last time I entered as fast as I could with the intention of going back and seeing what I could find to add at a later date. I'm also doing lots of backups which I should have done before. I'm probably being excessive, but it's also frustrating to work on a family and know that you found more information on them and can't recreate it.
I've posted before about connecting distant cousins. It always amazes me, and this time is no different.
My 6th cousin, Floyd, married Hattie. I found their three boys and a little bit about the boys. I turned my attention to Floyd and Hattie as I only had possible birth dates for them from census records. I found Floyd on the SSDI. Where's Hattie?
I found a tree submitted on Ancestry with her parents listed. I looked in my database to see if I had those names. No, but I enter the parents name and look for a census record to verify the names. I find one.
The mother's maiden name is not a direct line name for me, but it is one I run across fairly often in this part of the country so, just for fun, I check to see her parents are. I check to see if I have the parents...and oh my gosh! I do! Her mother is my third cousin, 3 times removed. That makes Hattie my 5th cousin 1x removed.
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