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I started discussing the person I had found on the internet with my parents when they started talking about my grandparents and their grandparents. I started taking notes.

One thing lead to another and by days end I had information on my grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, great aunts and so on. I had just received more information in one night than I had received the previous few weeks.

The following day I decided to call upon my grandfather and grandmother and discussed with them my new journey.

Throughout the phone call I received information for my great great grandfather and great great grandmother...this was awesome. I was accumulating family history quite rapidly just by talking with the family closest to me.

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I continued in this manner, calling every family member I could think of and getting more information from previous conversations with mom, dad and the grandparents. I had accumulated about sixty ancestors and I wanted to get started with details and documentation.

I felt it was time to hop on the computer and enter all information that I had into a file.
I then got on the internet and with the tools I had I began my search for the ancestors I had on the world wide web.

I started searching for my grandfather and pulled up some great information that lead to his mom and dad.

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My great grandmother's tale was kind of interesting! Laura Elizabeth was born in Smalltown, Kansas. A few days after giving birth her mother died and she was left with her father who I discovered through a marriage certificate had remarried just a few months later.

I soon found that they had moved into Missouri through a census from 1885. I lost track of Laura due to the burning of the majority of the 1890 census. When 1900 rolled around I found her father but, no Laura.

What happened to Laura? I went back to my grandfather who informed me that a few years after she was born she was sent to live with a family friend, for reasons unknown. The next time I found Laura was in the 1920 census living with my great grandfather and eleven children. She later died in 1969 and up to this point takes the mystery of her father giving her up to her grave.

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So you see, I found the statistical side of my great grandmother on the internet but the really juicy story I came up with was from my family.

Putting the two together filled in some of the blanks of my great grandmothers life, but rest assured I shall continue to seek out the information that will uncover the mystery.

I find it essential to communicate with the living to seek out the deceased! Although knowing names of ancestors is great, it is much more fulfilling to gather personal life experiences that keep me addicted to the journey that is my ancestry.