Below are two examples of receiving help from beyond the veil.
Seeing Clearly
I was in Ancestry.com looking at a census record which I hoped would be for my family. Sadly the image was very poor quality and unreadable. I turned away to look at my notes or something else and when I looked back. . .
Seeing Clearly
I was in Ancestry.com looking at a census record which I hoped would be for my family. Sadly the image was very poor quality and unreadable. I turned away to look at my notes or something else and when I looked back. . .
up at the census on the computer screen the record was clear, sharp and readable!
(It actually didn’t register with me what was happening at the moment.)
I quickly wrote it all down for my records. As I was finishing writing the last of my notes, I looked back up at the records on the screen. It was again very poor quality and unreadable as it had been originally. It was then that I realized what had happened. The record had been very clear for the time I needed to record the information!
With what I had transcribed, I now had the information and clues I needed to verify that the very poor quality record was my ancestors, even though I could no longer read it.
I felt that these people really wanted to be found.
Being Prompted
While at the St. George Family History Training Center (now the St. George FamilySearch Library), I was searching for an ancestor. One of the other missionaries approached me and asked if he could show me something on Ancestry.com. There he had found what appeared to be my ancestor and his wife along with birthdates, birthplaces and a list of nine children, the youngest of which was my great-great-grandmother. What was interesting was that this information was different from the family record I copied from my uncle.
My records were wrong! I had the wrong line!
With a few months of research in verifying sources, I feel that I have now straightened out, corrected and enlarged this family in my genealogy.
The missionary’s unsolicited offer (he apparently felt prompted) has convinced me that someone on the other side of the veil felt it necessary to get my attention so I could correct a tragic mistake in our family records.
(It actually didn’t register with me what was happening at the moment.)
I quickly wrote it all down for my records. As I was finishing writing the last of my notes, I looked back up at the records on the screen. It was again very poor quality and unreadable as it had been originally. It was then that I realized what had happened. The record had been very clear for the time I needed to record the information!
With what I had transcribed, I now had the information and clues I needed to verify that the very poor quality record was my ancestors, even though I could no longer read it.
I felt that these people really wanted to be found.
Being Prompted
While at the St. George Family History Training Center (now the St. George FamilySearch Library), I was searching for an ancestor. One of the other missionaries approached me and asked if he could show me something on Ancestry.com. There he had found what appeared to be my ancestor and his wife along with birthdates, birthplaces and a list of nine children, the youngest of which was my great-great-grandmother. What was interesting was that this information was different from the family record I copied from my uncle.
My records were wrong! I had the wrong line!
With a few months of research in verifying sources, I feel that I have now straightened out, corrected and enlarged this family in my genealogy.
The missionary’s unsolicited offer (he apparently felt prompted) has convinced me that someone on the other side of the veil felt it necessary to get my attention so I could correct a tragic mistake in our family records.