Friday, 1 October 2010

Widening the scope

Old archives can reveal names and other basic data on individuals born more than 125 years ago. If you get lucky, your relatives have have been land-owners, registered professionals, university graduates etc. and can thus be found in wider range of written sources.

Suddenly the gretest problem may be those relatives, whose data is related to newer material, years 1900 and later. Finding new, still living relatives may depend on pure coincidence. My grand-uncles relatives is a good example of that.

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