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[klkellick]

Hi there! Just wondering if anyone was still watching or thinking of using this community. :)

I was out of work for nearly a year, and at some point (to keep my brain from utterly rotting) I started more seriously pursuing mine and my spouse's family trees. And some of the stuff I'm finding strikes me as So Very Cool, I feel the need to share with others who are also into this stuff.

Some recent finds

[rainbow]

I've been looking through the California Digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc) lately and have found some fun finds.

Turns out my great-grandparents did the same thing my husband and I did and eloped, then had a wedding for family six months later. And neither my great-grandmother (who lived to be 103) nor any other family member ever mentioned it to either my uncle or I! Neither he nor I have any idea whether my grandfather (their only child) ever knew. ( scan of cliping )

And a lovely lady who prefers to remain anonymous first took photos of the cemetery in Grey Co, Ontario, where my great-grandfather's father came from, including a picture of his father's and oldest sister's gravestone, and after I contacted her, she went back, took better pics, and dug around and FOUND MY GGG GRANDMOTHER'S MISSING GRAVESTONE! \o/ ( photos )