Getting data about ancestors is a task that requires patience, care, accuracy, and can be frustrating. Often the information we have or that is passed to us is inaccurate, incomplete and sometimes wrong even, especially when the information comes from someone’s memory rather than from official documents.
That’s why a friend of mine from Spain who was helping me find my grandfather’s record once told me: Records doesn’t lie. I agree records doesn’t lie, although could be misinterpreted.
A photo or postcard sometimes contain important information that allows you to connect people. However, when you look at an interesting but undated photograph, without the person’s name you get that feeling you’re leaving behind something important.
I was sure that the information I had about a family person was correct, until i went through old photographs and found in the middle of them, the little saint.
You know, a little card with an image of a saint that in the back reports on someone’s passing. The information on the little card was similar, but it did not correspond to the details I had about that person in the family.
That’s when I thought, little saints doesn’t lie.
Therefore, I decided to use the information from the little saint for that ancestor. Who am I to oppose a saint?
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