Love and Lessons Learned

Played on the genealogy path all day yesterday. Did Google searches of family names. Clicked on the leaves that seemed to be greening my family tree. Read interesting member stories from the Ancestry.com site.  Then, this morning I realized it was July 14th and that was the date my parents were wed in 1943.  And, yesterday I remembered reading about the deep love a married couple of my  Carlton ancestors had for each other. Plus, I have Uncle Hub's letter about his girl. These ideas are just the combination for my blog.

 Now, if you are joining me on Ancestry Research 101 let me share a lesson learned. If you read a neat story you think you might like to refer to in the future; Bookmark it. That seems to be information of which I am aware and I remember Bookmarking stories as I read them yesterday- but the love story has disappeared. Maybe if I had actually used pen and paper to record some pertinent facts, I would be able to share this story with you.

But, it  is July 14th and I know that is my parents anniversary; so, I will use some of the millions of records available to me and continue with the wedding theme I have in mind.  I used the Birth, Death, and Marriage search and filled in all the facts I know about my mom. A marriage record appeared from the Florida Department of Health 1943. Yay, my parents were really married.  Yet, hours later that is all the marriage information I have been able to find. The county on record was listed as Polk; but, I am not even sure if that documented the location of the residence or the wedding ceremony.

Lesson learned-things that seem easy to find out may take a lot of digging; and another easy lesson is if you have family members to talk to, ask for their knowledge.

As you can see, my love themed blog is not doing so well; but, I have one more family love connection. It is a copy of Uncle Hub's letter written to his mother during World War 1.
Mama if I should get hurt you will be notified and I want you to notify my girl for me. For she
should know.  I guess you might as well know now as any time that I have one of those things.
And believe me she is some lady too.


 
 

 
 
After three more paragraphs, he adds a P.S. which states:
My girl's name and address is....
 

 
I thought I had at least saved some of the love part of my blog when I realized-this was not the lady he married.  The final lesson I learned was that even information found in handwritten facts may change over time.
 
Hope these lessons I have learned will help you on your family quest.  Please let me know how you are doing.


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