On a wet June morning, Greetings to all genealogical minded.
As restrictions imposed on us by Covid-19, doing research is different in that most town offices are or have been closed. The same is true for Libraries and Archives.
To access records or information often means resourcing to the computer and various websites. I used a lot of websites, including “Ancestry” and “Find a Grave.” I also used one other of my first research tools of going to graveyards in towns where my ancestors lived. I have been working on my parents’ first cousins to determine when they were hatched, matched, and dispatched.
Sounds boring, but it has not been, found a few fun facts like the two first cousins who are from different families and are double cousins getting married in a town halfway between their respective parents. Often I see two sisters or a brother and sister getting married to individuals who are double cousins, not first cousins. Found this on one’s twentieth-anniversary celebration record.
Covid-19 has made me work on harder stuff, the more recent relatives. The living one can be harder to deal with than those who died 100 years ago.
Slowly things will return to new a normal, and we will keep working on the Family tree, or is it a family circle.