OK! Yes, I know it has been since forever ago that i last posted something. A lot has happened since then and I will address those issues at another time. Today I want to share what just happened a few minutes ago. Those of you who are LDS will understand. Those of you are are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, feel questions free to ask me about it. I apologize in advance to be writing this assuming everyone will know what I am talking about.
There I was indexing Smyth County, Virgnia death certificates for 1922 as part of the church's indexing program when I came upon a record the name of Elisa Cress, maiden name Pafford. As I have Cress ancestry I recognized the name. I went into Family Search straightaway and found Eliza (remember, standardization of the spelling of names is a rather recent development in human evolution) Pafford, wife of Samuel Cress. I noticed that some of my information was only approximate and was able to fill in a few blanks.
I knew there was a reason I have been so interested in indexing Virginia death certificates and always hoped to find someone I was related to. I found one and yet it wasn't even in the line I was concentrating on.
