Many of us have heard stories passed down from our grandparents about fuzzy details on their ancestors. For example, a great-great-grandparent of mine was said to be from one particular county in Ireland only to turn out I had located them in another. In a recent search, I was contacted with limited information on a person’s ancestor who was said to have hailed from one county in Ireland only to be positively identified in another.
Grandparents can be a great source of information, but they simply could have received incorrect information from, say, an older sibling or may simply have forgotten through the passage of time the correct details of their ancestors. After all, many of our grandparents didn’t share the luxury we enjoy today from having grandparents willing to fulfill our inquiries. Simply put, in many families children and grandchildren were seen, but not heard. For those of us lucky enough to have had ancestors willing to share with us their family stories, this is a invaluable treasure.
Roots Discovery 