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I worked as a reference person in a genealogy library and was contacted by phone by an elderly woman in another state. I took her information about her deceased relative, looked in all the relevant material we had…and found nothing. I called her back to report. She said she had exhausted every resource and was just out of options. I laughingly suggested that there was a psychic in our town, and she immediately asked for the contact info! I did manage to dissuade her and pointed out that hiring a professional genealogist would be a much better use of her money. I have always hoped that was what she did.
I think this one is mine. And I don’t think they landed, just pushed him out as they flew over. Some ancestors were deposited on Earth by UFOs. Please check passenger lists for UFOs which are not housed anywhere on Earth.
For a while I suspected my ancestor was the reason for the witness protection program. Now I think it was his father who was the reason for that program! I wish the old ladies who had spent a gazillion dollars looking for him could have been alive when I found his father. I wonder if I will be alive when someone finds the paper proof to the man I suspect is our brick wall.
Gosh this looks familiar! – Genealogist Steve Morse has had very similar text on his one step website for many years https://stevemorse.org/grandfather/
Great minds think alike 😉 It was actually posted originally on my other blog some time ago–back when Internet Explorer was all the rage 😉