Serendipity
Clues in Hiding
by Jim Resseque
My e-mail address is JR541@aol.com
and I live in NY.
I was at a Baseball card and collectibles show about 7 years ago (about 4
years before I got into Genealogy) and was walking by a dealers table
when I overheard a dealer saying to someone that he had some old
Brooklyn Eagle Newspapers from the 1850s.
I was interested because I didn't know you could buy papers that old. Well, I asked him how much they were and he said I could have the 2 for $30 and I said okay.
I took them home without having looked at them too much and then put them in a safe place. Once in a while I took them out to show people.
A few years later after having gotten into genealogy I found out that my family lived in Brooklyn (as well as a few other places) and that my Great Great Grandfather William F. Ressegiue was an upholster.
3 months ago I remembered about the papers and checked to see if I could any Ressegiues and sure enough there was an ad in one of them for "Ressegiues Patent rollable spring mattresses.
Needless to say this blew my mind that I would find this paper by chance because of someone talking about them. And also that I had it in my house for 7 years before even knowing the name was in there. I think its eerie.
Submitted: Sat Jun 26 12:29:48 1999
