When we get back past living memory, often we don't quite know our ancestors. And then sometimes we find a record that shows them in the life -- letters or a pension file. What records have you found that revivified your people?
Harold Henderson, "Weekend Wonderings: Back to Life?," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 20 October 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Weekend Wonderings: Back to Life
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I found a letter written by my great-great-great-grandfather to the secretary of justice. My ggggrandfather was a constable and had just been transferred from a rural area of the Netherlands to Amsterdam. His wife was so homesick that he wrote a pleading letter to the secretary begging to be re-transferred. That letter is one of my favorite finds.
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