Solving Mysteries

One of the things I love about genealogy is solving the little mysteries that are inherent whenever you are trying to piece information together. For example, in the letter written by Robert Hugh McBride about his wife Lucinda's death, it was very difficult to read some of the words. I was working from copies of copies of copies of very old letters. There was a word that appeared to be "ruins" "ruins folks did not cum"). I could not make sense of this until I looked back at some genealogy records and found that Lucinda had a sister Margaret who was married to a man named Runyon. So I gathered that "ruins" was a phonetic spelling of Runyon. In the subsequent letter I posted, it also referred to "Rune's folks" so mystery solved. I also could not figure out the introduction, "Grandpa and ... H ONeal" until I again looked at genealogy charts and saw that Lucinda's brother was William Harrison, so deducted that it was addressed to Grandpa and W H O'Neal.
One of the problems I have discovered with posting on this blog is that the newest post shows up first on the page and some of the earlier posts may have had information that would clarify if the earlier were read first. I am going to try and figure out how to post or group things together that will link posts or make things more clear.

UPDATE: To resolve the problem in the previous paragraph, I wrote all the posts I wanted posted in sequence and saved them as drafts, rather than publishing. In the "Post Options" (at the bottom of the compose screen), there is an option for the post date and time. I put the date and time in the sequence in which I wanted them posted; e.g. the post I wanted to be first would have the most recent date and time. Then when I actually published the post, it put them in the correct sequence.