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Unusual Places to Look for Genealogy
Saturday, July 5th, 2008We all do it. We search and beg and pound the keyboard mercilessly, desperate to find someplace to glean just one little bit of information that will break down that unassailable brick wall that keeps us from the Holy Grail of Genealogy—The Unfindable Ancestor. I’ve destroyed my share of keyboards and still have a brick wall so unscalable that I truly believe my Unfindable Ancestor was beamed up by aliens, which may explain my siblings’ love of science fiction books, my crush on Chewbacca and my obsession with the genealogy program Reunion for Mac, which includes a person status for Alien Abductee. During my many years of Maalox-assisted genealogy research, I’ve accumulated a list of Unusual Places to look for genealogy, which I’ll share with you here.