Great Genealogy Stories...

Great Genealogy Stories

Previously published by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Missing Links


A VOICE FROM THE PAST by [email protected]

I was searching for information about an uncle who had died before I was born. No one in the family would talk about his death. I knew his name and the date of this death but nothing else. Something kept pushing me to find out this information. I was at the State Historical Library in the city where I live, looking at old newspapers on microfilm alone in the dark. No one knew me there, and I was surrounded only by other women. I had to leave shortly to meet my husband and had decided to stop my search for the day when I heard someone call out my name. It was a male voice that I never heard before that day nor have I heard it since. It told me to continue my search. So a shaking hand (mine) turned that handle one more crank to the next week's newspaper, and there it was -- all the information I was looking for and more. I don't know whose voice that was, but I strongly suspect it was my uncle calling to me from above, wanting me to know what had happened to him.


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