Breakthrough!
I have been searching for a client's grandmother FOREVER. OK maybe that's not entirely true, but she's been a big focus of our search since we started. Debbie (client) was told grandma's name was Valentine Poole and she came from England. That's all we knew. Now this family doesn't share secrets. No one talks. It's all a big ol mystery. I love those. I knew "Valentine" was married to Debbie's grandfather, David George, and I knew he had a son, Edward David George. We knew David had died around 1980 and was buried in Florida. Let the search begin. I searchedandsearchedandsearched..... I found a record hit that was a maybe. You'd be surprised how many David Bryants there are. One married a Dorothy Valentine, and I wasn't even positive enough to save the record onto his file, but I kept it in memory, just in case. I searched ancestry many times for Valentine Poole, David Bryant, Edward David....all nothing. I hit family...