Sibling Power
by Dorothy Barr
My e-mail address is mscapriz@sympatico.ca
and I
live in Ontario, Canada.
One day my sister and I had
arranged to meet after work for
dinner. Since I finish work earlier than her, I said that
she could meet me at the provincial archives which are really
close to where she works.
I was looking for my great
grandfathers brother in a census as I knew the town he was
living in. My sister walked in just as I found the entry.
I was going to print just that portion of the page.
She said
wait a minute look at this... further down the page was a
Rosanna Schwartz. We knew my greatgrandfather had a sister named
Rosanna which was not a common name in the 1800's. My sister
had remembered an elderly lady telling us that one of the
sisters had married a Schwartz.
I had not remembered that
piece of information and would not even have printed that
piece of the page had my sister not shown up at precisely
that time.
In addition since I had to scroll further down
the page to get the entire family in the area that would
print we found my great-grandfather's mother as well
(she was another Rosanna).
Submitted: Sun Feb 1 14:38:23 1998
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