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Juliana

Check with Cemetery Offices

The cemetery office may have more information than can be found on the tombstone. I was trying to determine the age at death of my maternal grandmother. A cousin in Ireland who had gone over the nineteenth-century church records there found two pages missing, where he thought her birth must have been recorded--all siblings having been accounted for.

He asked whether my grandmother was the eldest in the family or the youngest. I had no clue. I promised to look at the headstone in New York--without luck. Yet, the Calvary Cemetery office records showed that she died in her sixtieth year (thus she was the youngest). The office also noted (something I was aware of from family lore): transfer of remains from another grave.

Sue Washburn

Review Old Files

I've come to realize how important it is to periodically review your family documentation, census records, files, etc. as they often contain clues or information that meant nothing at the time of your initially finding the information, but now have added significance in terms of what you have discovered in the time period since then.

Carl Roache

Reunion Ribbons

At our 2003 Drobnak Reunion, a cousin volunteered to come up with a plan to quickly identify the different members. She assigned a color to each family. When they arrived a color ribbon was attached to their Reunion T-Shirt so identifying what family they belong too was quick and easy. Of course a large chart was made for reference. It worked so well that in 2006 we plan on using the (new) ribbons again.

God bless,

Mary Anne Drobnak