The reason however for writing is what happened after we found out the class was cancelled. One of the folks brought in two grand daughters that she planned to leave in the FHC while she was in the Temple Prep Class. One of the two little girls is 12 and had been pleading with her grandmother to bring her into the FHC. She was a little shy, but you could see she was also very excited and quickly came in and sat down.
We gave her a pedigree chart, but you could see that she wanted to do something right now, even though grandmother would not be going to her class. So grandma sits down quietly and watches as her grand daughter finds 5 census records with her gr gr grandfather listed with all these children.
Grandmother recognizes the names. We know it is the right person, but then we start looking closer and realize the first daughter is two years older than the wife listed. We start looking again and realize that the first few children cannot be the children of the wife listed because of their ages.
They also list a sister and brother-in-law, so now we know the maiden name of the listed wife. We also realize that he obviously had another wife.
We add his name and the "listed wife" with the children we know have to be theirs and gr gr grandpa with an unknown wife and the older children.
Asia is very excited and happy as we print each record and her grandmother is sitting behind and lighting up with each new find. Grandma then says, I am so glad we came tonight, because Asia has wanted to come and I didn't. I want to bring her in again so she can continue to work, this really has been exciting to find all these records.
Asia and Grandma leave with a folder with 5 census records, and a pedigree chart to fill out.
Having an excited 12 year old come in with a desire to do family history is one of those golden moments, that you hope will become contagious.
Sister Olson
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