Another Look

On a fairly regular basis, I write to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for obituaries. A great majority of my grandmother's family either lived there or passed through the area at some point, so I am fairly successful with getting copies.

As good as the staff at Carnegie is, I find that when I go there for a visit that I usually discover additional obituaries / death notices / funeral notices that contain new bits of information. When you have an area that has numerous daily newspapers, this is bound to happen, so I make it a point to see if I can track down some new articles on any of those relations where I may only have a short notice to start with.

Such an occasion happened on a recent visit. I had a short funeral notice for a gg-grandfather that I had gotten a number of years earlier and looked at the other dailies to see if I could find anything else. I did.

The new notice that I found confirmed the birth surname of his mother by indicating that an uncle had attended the funeral - which opened up a new line of research for me in that, other than the mother, I had no information on that line of the family. Although a first name for the uncle was not provided, I was able to find him because of his profession, which was noted in the article.

Now if I could just discover who their parents were.