I thought I'd work on some family history by going through old paperwork. From the filing cabinet I pulled out a couple of wills I had researched and copied way back in the very early days of my genealogy career, when I was about 20 years old. I painstakingly transcribed the shortest one, half a page long, and upon completion went to my genealogy program to make a note on that person's entry that I had a transcript of the will. He wasn't to be found. Half an hour of intense research later, using the Digger indexes, I determined that this particular bloke wasn't a relative at all !!! Joke's on me. ~ The upside - I can shred that piece of paper now.
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Showing posts with label will genealogy family history. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Day 47
I thought I'd work on some family history by going through old paperwork. From the filing cabinet I pulled out a couple of wills I had researched and copied way back in the very early days of my genealogy career, when I was about 20 years old. I painstakingly transcribed the shortest one, half a page long, and upon completion went to my genealogy program to make a note on that person's entry that I had a transcript of the will. He wasn't to be found. Half an hour of intense research later, using the Digger indexes, I determined that this particular bloke wasn't a relative at all !!! Joke's on me. ~ The upside - I can shred that piece of paper now.
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