“A picture is worth a thousand words”

I am very grateful for “my medicine.” Recently, I immersed myself in research projects that required attention to minute details. Sadly, I have to report that I have not located the death date for Susanna Smith. I exhausted every possibility on Ancestry and moved to other programs. Likewise, limited information on WikiTree and FamilySearch. I captured the available information (screenprint) and added explanations. The images will be a guide for other researchers. Hours, thus spent, are my “anti-depression” medication.

The Susanna Smith Flory project was brought to my attention by “a cousin” who noted that I had listed a death date that actually belonged to another woman named Susannah Flory. A second project arrived when a woman found one of her family members in my forest (more than 101,000 individuals). I believed my documentation (for that family, that “tree”) was 200% accurate. I was informed that DNA proved the children had a different father. It was a well-kept secret and I won’t alter my data because the grown children don’t know. Someday, they too, may take DNA tests, see their names in my tree, and question their heritage. I don’t have their biological father’s ancestry.  ~~~ Sometimes it takes two or three days to gather all the information. When I’m not at the computer, when I’m in bed trying to go to sleep, the search process keeps churning in my brain. So, like tonight, I return to the computer and document the additional information that my brain revealed.