The past couple of days have been great ones for genea-coincidences and genea-connections. First, Barbara Poole of Life from the Roots notified me via Facebook yesterday that she had found a blog with a Greenville connection and saw that I was not listed among the followers. It turned out that this was Southwest Arkie's new genealogy blog, which I had not found (I had really been missing SW Arkie's old blog, which I thought had gone dormant). Barbara is a real Genea-Angel! And now I know of another Genea-Blogger with a Greenville connection.
Today I got a Facebook note from Terri Kallio of The Ties That Bind, who is researching the Curtice family. A search brought her to my blog - Bettie Curtice Rosser was a close friend of Julia Mister Lewis, the wife of my great-great uncle, William Henry Lewis. Bettie Rosser's grandson was the genea-angel who sent me letters and pictures of Henry and Julia Lewis as well as some family pictures of the Curtices and Rossers. Terri and I are now exchanging information on connections and photographs.
This is why I love being a Genea-Blogger; it's some of the best legal fun you can have!
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ReplyDeleteTalk about coincidences! This week I heard from someone connected to the Nebraska Curtice family (inlaws of inlaws - no blood relation to me) and a family named Risser, not Rosser.
ReplyDeleteAny chance these are your kin, too, Greta?
Can we say?
ReplyDeleteWAHHHOOOOOO
Fun week! Enjoy!
Thanks Greta for the mention, although I don't know about the angel part. Sweet of you.
ReplyDeleteSusan - I am not connected to the Curtices, but my great-great-uncle's wife was a close friend of Bettie Curtice and after Bettie's death she and the gg-uncle helped to raise Bettie's children. And that coincidence is really strange!
ReplyDeleteCarol and Barbara - thanks for dropping by!