When I am working on the Moneymaker side of my family in Virginia, there is always a pull to keep going backward. Find the parents, then their parents, then see whether another generation is waiting in an older record. That part of genealogy can be hard to resist. But sometimes, while following that line, I notice someone sitting just off to the side: a sister who never married, a brother who moved away, a child who died young, or a relative living in the household whose connection is not immediately clear. I have learned that these are often the people I should stop and look at before moving on...
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