We have all been told many times the value of looking again at the information we have accumulated and revisiting sources we have used in the past when trying to make progress in our family histories.\u00a0 We simply cannot stress this enough, there is always new information out there and frequently new ways in which to view the information we have already collected.\u00a0 In my next post I will give you several examples from my own research and ask Pat to join me with a few of her own.<\/p>\n
But for now I will simply recall my most embarrassing moment in this category.\u00a0 We had a pleasant mix of family and friends assembled for Thanksgiving and, as Pat said in her last post, there are pictures on my wall that I hardly notice anymore, including one of my mother\u2019s family, the Steins.\u00a0 It\u2019s a terrific photograph of my great-grandmother surrounded by her children taken either shortly before or shortly after they left Russia.<\/p>\n
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Someone asked me about the picture and I responded, \u201cThat\u2019s my great-grandmother surrounded by her eight living children.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are a math-friendly family.\u00a0 I have spent a good portion of my adult life dealing with numbers, my husband calculates all kinds of stuff in his job as a city planner, together we raised a computer major and a math minor.\u00a0 Everyone in this family can count to ten without taking off his or her shoes , even me. So imagine my surprise when my son said, \u201cMom, there are ten people in that picture.\u201d I stopped, I looked and, yes, there are nine people surrounding my great grandmother.<\/p>\n
My mother told me that the photo was her grandmother\u2019s family. I knew my great-grandmother had eight children that survived infancy and that was that.\u00a0 I never really looked at that picture.\u00a0 Now I see that not only are there nine children, some of the women are wearing the same dresses.\u00a0 This might be a wedding photo or one child might be a grandchild.\u00a0 I have lots of information on this family that will help me sort this out, and this afternoon we\u2019re taking the frame off and very carefully getting a look at the back and scanning the photograph for posterity and for this post.\u00a0 Then I\u2019ll be spending the rest of the afternoon looking at old photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have all been told many times the value of looking again at the information we have accumulated and revisiting sources we have used in the past when trying to make progress in our family histories.\u00a0 We simply cannot stress …<\/p>\n
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