What's in a source? Two people where searching for sources to add to a relative in FamilySearch. No sources were being found. However, from a yearbook picture it was identified that a person "Phila" short for Phyllis was found, and from a World War I, II enlistment record it identified "Emily Jane" as his spouse. This small opening in these sources expanded ancestry lines with additional siblings and parents.
When the 1915 yearbook picture was viewed on Ancestry.com, a match was identified as the same picture a sister had sent of Phyllis, now Phila to her older sister. The family for years could find no significant record. From this episode with a simple yearbook picture, a census record linked Phila to her sister, a brother and her Mother, who in the mind of the granddaughter had been lost, and never able to be found.
An open and clear mind truly expands a wave of revelation.
Malachi 4:5-6
ReplyDelete5.Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.