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Believe It Or Not - documented oddities in genealogy
This is somewhat related to my Skeletons forum, but is a bit more fun and easier to talk about.
Maybe it's the oddities -like Fifi's grave marker here- that gives genealogy a connotation of eccentricity. But certainly genealogists today don't lead strange lives like their ancestors. We simply find the odd clues, like:
= a civil death certificate for a buried arm
= a passenger manifest with the note "gone himself overboard"
= a court ordered name change where the German chose a more difficult name in America
Q. What have you documented?
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Permalink Reply by Paul Drake on
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A tombstone in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, relates that the lady buried there on February 31, 1839.
A giant, black granite ball on a pedestal for the Messenger family that truly does move, a tiny bit every year, The spot where it originally rested is clearly visible; it was studied MANY time in the efforts of scientists to learn why. I understand that some physicist solved the problem of why and that it stopped moving on the pedestal in the 1990s. People were spooked by it for many, many years.
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Permalink Reply by jennifer suzanne dawson on
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It sounds like the ladies Spirit was ready to go but couldant until some occurance in 1990.
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