Today I read a story about a young woman who helps an elderly lady with her family history. She is looking into the life of this elderly woman's father's eldest sister. This woman's name was Faith. Faith and her family consisting of her husband and four children died in 1905 of a disease, they believed that this was the whole family. Come to find out there was a fifth child who had passed away in 1904 the same day that the child was born. This wouldn't have shown up in the 1900 census obviously and it didn't show up in the death report of the entire family because the child had already passed on. The only way that they knew this child had existed at all was because of the family bible, where faith had written down the names and dates of her children's births.
This makes me wonder how many of my own relatives am I missing simply because I do not have the resources to know from the direct source their mothers. This is what I am looking for here, I want to find the missing pieces to my puzzle that I just don't know how. I would like to find people out there that may have family keepsakes that they are willing to share with me whether family bibles, journals, or even pictures.
