Tracking down the siblings of my great-grandfather, John Joseph Strelesky, has been challenging. Fortunately, there aren’t too many people with this last name, so when I find it, I can usually determine pretty quickly whether or not they are related. One night I was using FamilySearch.org and found the marriage certificate of Rose Streletzky and…
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Obituary: Blanche (Payne) Lightcap
Blanche Payne was the first wife of my great-grandfather, Ernest Lightcap. They married January 2, 1900. She was 19; he was 20. She died of Bright’s disease, a historical classification of kidney diseases, when she was 23. They had no children. Until I started researching my family history, there was always some confusion over how…
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