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This is somewhat related to my Skeletons forum, but is a bit more fun and easier to talk about.
Maybe it's the oddities -like Fifi's grave marker here- that gives genealogy a connotation of eccentricity. But certainly genealogists today don't lead strange lives like their ancestors. We simply find the odd clues, like:

= a civil death certificate for a buried arm
= a passenger manifest with the note "gone himself overboard"
= a court ordered name change where the German chose a more difficult name in America

Q. What have you documented?

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A tombstone in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, relates that the lady buried there on February 31, 1839.

A giant, black granite ball on a pedestal for the Messenger family that truly does move, a tiny bit every year, The spot where it originally rested is clearly visible; it was studied MANY time in the efforts of scientists to learn why. I understand that some physicist solved the problem of why and that it stopped moving on the pedestal in the 1990s. People were spooked by it for many, many years.
It sounds like the ladies Spirit was ready to go but couldant until some occurance in 1990.

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