Rekindled

Funny how all it takes is one little query to get my genealogy-itch going again.

I recently got an e-mail from a previously-unknown cousin on my Memaw's side of the family — my second cousin once removed, actually — giving me a piece of the Mickler family puzzle I hadn't known before. This bit of information (that my great-grandfather was murdered, and that my Granny was a widow) spurred a week-long flurry of genealogical research on my part, culminating with my splurging on a month of Ancestry.com access.

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