Vent: My aunt's old letters hint at a family secret that historians can't figure out

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Check the DATES and locations on those letters, historians sometimes miss the small personal stuff that explains everything. My grandma's diary made NO sense until we matched her entries to old church records.

harperc7920h ago

So, what other everyday records can we check against each other? Things like school lists or store receipts often have dates and names that get missed. Putting those small bits together can explain so much.

hollybarnes16h ago

Pull up old city maps alongside those letters. It showed why my great-grandmother mentioned walking 'across the river' so often.