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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 417091" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I've just gotten started on it about a month ago and I'm really getting in to it. I've learned quite a bit but I've run in to quite a few brick walls too! And I've found out that a lot of the things we were told about family history as kids was pure B.S.! Ours is complicated because most of the relatives immigrated from Germany after the Civil War, lots of name changes, lots of fathers and sons and grandsons with the same names! And I've totally lost three great-aunts, my grandfathers' sisters that I remember from my childhood! I don't know who they were, but if they were his sisters, they didn't live with the rest of the family. I can find them as adults under their married names but not as children. I love looking at the old hand-written census records and it's morbid but fascinating to look at the hand-written death records. So many young people who died, and so many that died of things that are routinely treated with antibiotics now! I think I've gotten addicted to it now!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 417091, member: 1883"] I've just gotten started on it about a month ago and I'm really getting in to it. I've learned quite a bit but I've run in to quite a few brick walls too! And I've found out that a lot of the things we were told about family history as kids was pure B.S.! Ours is complicated because most of the relatives immigrated from Germany after the Civil War, lots of name changes, lots of fathers and sons and grandsons with the same names! And I've totally lost three great-aunts, my grandfathers' sisters that I remember from my childhood! I don't know who they were, but if they were his sisters, they didn't live with the rest of the family. I can find them as adults under their married names but not as children. I love looking at the old hand-written census records and it's morbid but fascinating to look at the hand-written death records. So many young people who died, and so many that died of things that are routinely treated with antibiotics now! I think I've gotten addicted to it now! [/QUOTE]
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