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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 612062" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Another thing, it is very lucky if you're researching people that other people have done research on, some even putting stories in that are fascinating to read. It shows you just how different life was back then! The story I absolutely love was one about one of my paternal grandmothers uncles who lived on a farm in Iowa, near where my grandmother lived. This family had five or six sons, a blessing in a hardworking farm family back then, and finally, years later had one little girl. But she was sick and frail and she died when she was only four or five, leaving the family heartbroken. So the father wrote a letter to a senator that he was acquainted with, telling him that the family would like to adopt a little girl. This senator either went to or sent someone to an orphanage in New York and they picked out a little girl! And this child, just five years old, was put on a train in New York ALONE with just a note pinned to her coat with the name of her new family and the town they lived in and made the trip to Iowa! They picked her up at the train station, took her home, and she was their daughter! This would have been in the late 1800's. Can you even imagine something like that being done now? OMG! And decades later, when this girl was grown and married, it was her home that the father was living in when he died!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 612062, member: 1883"] Another thing, it is very lucky if you're researching people that other people have done research on, some even putting stories in that are fascinating to read. It shows you just how different life was back then! The story I absolutely love was one about one of my paternal grandmothers uncles who lived on a farm in Iowa, near where my grandmother lived. This family had five or six sons, a blessing in a hardworking farm family back then, and finally, years later had one little girl. But she was sick and frail and she died when she was only four or five, leaving the family heartbroken. So the father wrote a letter to a senator that he was acquainted with, telling him that the family would like to adopt a little girl. This senator either went to or sent someone to an orphanage in New York and they picked out a little girl! And this child, just five years old, was put on a train in New York ALONE with just a note pinned to her coat with the name of her new family and the town they lived in and made the trip to Iowa! They picked her up at the train station, took her home, and she was their daughter! This would have been in the late 1800's. Can you even imagine something like that being done now? OMG! And decades later, when this girl was grown and married, it was her home that the father was living in when he died! [/QUOTE]
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