TWO brick walls down this weekend! [View All]

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I love it when I can make some headway like this!

I had been looking for Mabel for YEARS. She married this guy AND died between the 1920 and 1930 censuses, when he son was only about 3. The husband remarried to a woman who treated the son (Gerald) terribly, I heard from another family member. But no one knew where he was. Unfortunately, when I did finally find him, he died in 1991.

His half brother was no help, and is kind of a jerk. That guy's daughter is nice, but doesn't know much because she's pretty young.

SOME kind soul submitted a tiny bit of info to Ancestry, and that piece (where this woman is buried) filled in the blank. I had the book of cemetery transcriptions from Oak Hill in Janesville, but when I bought it a few years ago, had completely missed her, since one of the family members told me her first name was Grace! But there she was, with a death date, so I was able to look up her obit in Madison on Saturday (sorry Sybylla, short notice on this one!). Her Janesville obituary listed her marriage YEAR, so it won't take me quite as much time to find it. :bounce:

AND one tiny clue in an obituary I sent for from Oregon yielded a teeny tiny bit of info that led to me finding a woman's obituary on Ancestry last night. I was able to finally make contact with my bunch that ended up in Ohio. :woohoo:

Life is good! If the weather improves any tomorrow, I'm heading to Green County to finally visit my first courthouse and see if I can answer some more brick wall questions that have been bugging the crap out of me, then I start my new job on Thursday, barring any unforeseen complications. Ya'll wish me luck!

:bounce: !