Tag: family history

Don Sroufe, when he really was Don Sroufe

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His early years Don Sroufe’s story is complex, confusing and incomplete. It has been a challenging research task to locate records of this elusive man who was married to my paternal grandmother, Lillian Florence (Howle) Marshall, using the name, Robert Lee Marshall. It was only after my Grandmother Marshall’s death that I uncovered original records documenting their marriage and divorce hidden in a trunk in her hall closet. The story of this discovery and the associated records are covered in greater detail Read More …

The Elusive Robert Lee Marshall

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Who is Robert Lee Marshall? Using the small bits of information that my grandmother had shared about her early life (see In Search of My Father’s Father), I began looking for Robert Lee Marshall by searching the Internet. Of course, this was such a common name that the search engines returned thousands of hits. Even when I added other identifying terms into the search box, the results were still too numerous. It didn’t take me long to realize that if Read More …

Right Space… Right Time

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I finally did it! Yep. It’s been almost two years since I began thinking about starting a genealogy blog and today I am finally plunging into this modern dimension of expression. Why did it take me so long? Well… I am the type of person who does a lot of research into unfamiliar topics before making decisions about them. My research is then followed by what some people would call geologically-long time periods of careful contemplation which finally Read More …