Frustration

It's so frustrating to have an ancestor whom you're 99% sure was in the local newspapers 100+ years ago . . . and to have all of the newspapers gone, destroyed, never to be unearthed . . .

It reminds me of Aaron Rice, whom we know is from Litchfield, CT, but can't records of . . . or our ancestors in Woodford, Vermont, where the court building with all the records burned down . . . or of the Obuses, who chose Obus as their last name more or less at random so that no one could track them down as Jews . . . or even the family questions I should have asked my Aunt Toni on her deathbed, almost two decades ago . . . but I didn't know the right questions yet . . .

The death of information is a terrible thing . . .