Friday Find: Ever order a genealogy record and receive the wrong one? That happened when I requested a death certificate for Henry Clay Crawford—but the mistaken document introduced me to another Henry Crawford and his family story. Sometimes the wrong record still leads to discovery. #genealogy #Fa
When the Wrong Record Still Tells a Story Genealogy research rarely follows a perfectly straight path. Sometimes the record you want is missing. Sometimes the index contains an error. And sometimes, after carefully ordering a document and waiting for it to arrive in the mail, you open the envelope and discover… the wrong record. That’s the story behind today’s Friday Find.