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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > I found a bible!
 
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Juanito
Jan 20, 2004

I wasn't paying attention
to what you just said.

Can you repeat yourself
in a more interesting way?
Hell Gem
Transcribing all of this into a public blog post would probably get noticed by someone doing research, at some point.

I wrote a post about the fact that my family didn't know anything about my great-great-great-grandfather's family before they got on a ship in Antwerp in 1867 and headed to the US. I'd spent a lot of time doing research online, and found absolutely nothing.

Someone found my post via Google, and contacted me. Turns out, we shared the same great-great-grandfather, and he'd done some genealogy research in Germany. So I (and my grandparents) were able to learn a lot more about our family.

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Juanito
Jan 20, 2004

I wasn't paying attention
to what you just said.

Can you repeat yourself
in a more interesting way?
Hell Gem

Mystic Mongol posted:

e:Plot twist!

So I just got some texts from (I assume) one of the nieces, who is unhappy that some stranger is calling up her mother and claiming to have something with the family name on it. She's pretty upset her mother gave me the family address. (I found it independently in the white pages, but hey, doxxing is spooky)

She hasn't given me a name or deigned to speak over the phone, so we'll see how this goes.
The internet works in mysterious ways.

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